Definition of Chevin

1. the chub a river fish [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Chevin

cheventeins
cheverel
cheverels
cheveril
cheverils
cheveron
cheverons
cheverye
cheveryes
chevet
chevets
chevied
chevies
cheville
chevilles
chevin (current term)
chevins
cheviot
cheviots
chevisance
chevisances
chevisaunce
chevon
chevre
chevres
chevret
chevrets
chevrette
chevron
chevron incision

Literary usage of Chevin

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Picturesque History of Yorkshire: Being an Account of the History by Joseph Smith Fletcher (1900)
"... CLIFF STAINBURN—POOL BANK - FARNLEY PARK—OTLEY chevin—OTLEY—WESTON HALL. I \N the north side of the river Wharfe, in the district lying to the west of ..."

2. The State Records of North Carolina by North Carolina, Walter Clark, William Laurence Saunders, Stephen Beauregard Weeks (1904)
"N. chevin, C. GALE, FRAN. FOSTER, T. KNIGHT. CHAPTER XXIV. (Repealed by Act 4 April, 1741, ch. 15.) V An Act for the Tryal of Small & Mean Causes. ..."

3. A Picturesque History of Yorkshire: Being an Account of the History by Joseph Smith Fletcher (1900)
"... CLIFF STAINBURN—POOL BANK - FARNLEY PARK—OTLEY chevin—OTLEY—WESTON HALL. I \N the north side of the river Wharfe, in the district lying to the west of ..."

4. British Phaenogamous Botany, Or, Figures and Descriptions of the Genera of ...by William Baxter by William Baxter (1843)
"... in a fir plantation two A'"í)Vl^l|/ey chevin On all ihe high moors in the neighbourhood of "" -fi-—Common in the mountainous ..."

5. The Domestic World: A Practical Guide in All the Daily Difficulties of the by Robert Kemp Philp (1889)
"... Chub, THE, OR chevin.—Like the perch, this fish is a very bold biter, and will rise eagerly at a natural or artificial fly. They spawn in June, ..."

6. The Governance of London: Studies on the Place Occupied by London in English by George Laurence Gomme (1907)
"And because he doubted of the age of chevin, he took certain ... And in the same term that the fine was levied, chevin brought his writ of error, ..."

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