Lexicographical Neighbors of Cymlins
Literary usage of Cymlins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Economic History of Virginia in the Seventeenth Century: An Inquiry Into the by Philip Alexander Bruce (1907)
"The cymlins were planted in May, and the other seeds probably about the same
time.2 The first plantation of maize began in April and the second in May, ..."
2. The Southern Planter (1852)
"The pumpkins were sometimes boiled— the cymlins always. Besides the articles of
t large white-oaks in the yard, which bore well, ! house were made to pull ..."
3. The Writings of George Washington: Being His Correspondence, Addresses by George Washington (1855)
"And, if pumpkins, cymlins, turnips, and such like growths are found beneficial
to the land, or useful and profitable for stock, places enough may be found ..."
4. The American Almanac and Repository of Useful Knowledge for the Year edited by Jared Sparks, Johann Schobert, Francis Bowen, George Partridge Sanger (1833)
"... two fields, in the following numbers, will be fallowed for wheat, and treated
in all respects as mentioned above ; and if pumpkins, cymlins, turnips, ..."
5. Researches, Philosophical and Antiquarian, Concerning the Aboriginal History by James Haines McCulloh (1829)
"... cultivated also several different kinds of beans and peas, and several species
of cucurbita, such as pumpkins, squashes, cymlins, water-mellons, &c. ..."
6. My First Holiday; Or, Letters Home from Colorado, Utah, and California. by Caroline Wells Healey Dall (1881)
"... stew of cymlins or summer-squash, and tomatoes cut in slices in a rich gravy.
An oyster patty was put on the same plate when the stew was served, ..."
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