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melon seed

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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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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

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

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

This plan was carried out, and the melon seed came up in a very promising way.

From Driven Back to Eden by Edward Payson Roe

And then she tried melon seed, but it would not eat.

From Aw-Aw-Tam Indian Nights Being the myths and legends of the Pimas of Arizona by J. William Lloyd

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