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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Example Sentences

In that case, Robert, is melon seed often lost?

From The Eve of the French Revolution by Lowell, Edward J. (Edward Jackson)

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 Crane, Laura Dent

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

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 Jewett, Sarah Orne

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

From The Light in the Clearing by Bacheller, Irving