melon seed

American  

noun

1. a small, broad, shallow boat for sailing or rowing, formerly used by hunters in various bays and marshes along the coast of New Jersey.

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melon seed

"You ain't no business eatin' a melon seed."

From The Light in the Clearing by Irving Bacheller

Sometimes in the forenoon a darkly clad figure was seen in the little garden-plot putting in corn or melon seed, and gravely hoeing.

From Literary and Social Essays by George William Curtis

I says, and 'twas thrue for me, that I 'd me pumpkins planted the week before she'd dropped anny old melon seed into the ground, and the same bein' already dwining from so manny bugs.

From The Queen's Twin and Other Stories by Sarah Orne Jewett

It is a received opinion, a thing taken for granted, an axiom in horticulture, that melon seed is the better for being old.

From The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 12, No. 335, October 11, 1828 by Various

The servant passed around preserved Chinese fruits, nuts and dried melon seed.

From The Automobile Girls at Washington Checkmating the Plots of Foreign Spies by Laura Dent Crane

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