Chincoteague

[ shing-kuh-teeg, ching- ]

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noun

a town on a small island in a lagoon Chincoteague Bay in E Virginia: annual wild pony roundup.

This loft over a former groggery is no place for you: the news will spread from Chincoteague to Arlington.

The moonlight scarcely fretted the soft expanse of Chincoteague Bay.

The bay of Chincoteague is five or six miles wide, and the nearest hamlet is in Virginia, as is Chincoteague island also.

Wrecks came ashore on the submerged shoal of Chincoteague, but there were now no wreckers to labor for salvage.

If they wanted money for public enterprise on the mainland, the Jew of Chincoteague was first to be thought of.

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