Chincoteague
[shing-kuh-teeg, ching-]
- a town on a small island in a lagoon (Chincoteague Bay) in E Virginia: annual wild pony roundup.
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This was the spontaneous way in which the Chincoteague people welcomed me.
Voyage of the Paper CanoeNathaniel H. Bishop
The celebrated oyster-beds of the people of Chincoteague commence about twenty miles south of the Hommack.
Voyage of the Paper CanoeNathaniel H. Bishop
This loft over a former groggery is no place for you: the news will spread from Chincoteague to Arlington.
The Entailed HatGeorge Alfred Townsend
The moonlight scarcely fretted the soft expanse of Chincoteague Bay.
Tales of the ChesapeakeGeorge Alfred Townsend
The bay of Chincoteague is five or six miles wide, and the nearest hamlet is in Virginia, as is Chincoteague island also.
Tales of the ChesapeakeGeorge Alfred Townsend