chincapin
Britishnoun
Example Sentences
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Summer grapes hung their just ripened clusters from the vine-laden saplings, and the chincapin bushes were starred with opening burrs.
From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 99, January, 1866 by Various
Oh! these are to thresh the chincapin bushes, when 30 we get there!
From Her Mother's Secret by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
Upon my word, chincapin," said he, "we haven't opened that basket yet!
From Dotty Dimple Out West by May, Sophie
Oh! please, where are the big chincapin thickets we have heard so much about?” inquired Elva, in whose ideas these nuts were, after all, the most immediately important item in their errand to the farm.
From Her Mother's Secret by Southworth, Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte
But, simple as the house was, it was approached by lordly avenues, shaded with black-jack and sweet gum and chincapin, interwoven with superb magnolias and gorgeous tulip trees.
From Winter Evening Tales by Barr, Amelia Edith Huddleston
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