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Definition of Chinkapins
1. chinkapin [n] - See also: chinkapin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chinkapins
Literary usage of Chinkapins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An American Glossary by Richard Hopwood Thornton (1912)
"(NED) 1705 Even these places are stored with Chesnuts, chinkapins, Acorns, &c.
... 1705 chinkapins have a Taste something like a Chesnut, and grow in a Husk ..."
2. Outing (1893)
"His skin is the color of old mahogany, his teeth sound as billiard balls, and
his eyes look like "chinkapins floating in milk." That isn'ta very good simile ..."
3. Nut Culture in the United States: Embracing Native and Introduced Species by United States Division of Pomology, William P. Corsa (1896)
"I have noticed it carefully, and, as it is surrounded by both chinkapins and ...
Addison D. Smith, Cassville: "There is a large quantity of chinkapins here. ..."
4. Memoirs of Robert E. Lee: His Military and Personal History, Embracing a by Armistead Lindsay Long, Marcus Joseph Wright (1886)
"A Northern writer describes the country as covered by "a dense undergrowth of
low-limbed and scraggy pines, stiff and bristling chinkapins, scrub oaks, ..."
5. Modern Eloquence by Thomas Brackett Reed, Rossiter Johnson, Justin McCarthy, Albert Ellery Bergh (1900)
"I ask the audience to return with me now to that wild and weird wilderness of
scrub oaks, chinkapins, and pines, where we left Grant and Lee, and in another ..."
6. The Photographic History of the Civil War in Ten Volumes by Francis Trevelyan Miller, Robert Sampson Lanier (1911)
"Low-limbed pines, scrub-oaks, hazels, and chinkapins interlaced their branches
on the sides of rough country roads that lead through this labyrinth of ..."
7. Fisher's River (North Carolina) Scenes and Characters by Hardin E. Taliaferro (1859)
"Why, butter, flaxseed, chestnuts, chinkapins, Irish potatoes, and tobacco.
These were the main staples. Sam Lundy always added a few items of his own to the ..."
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