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

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

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

"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

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

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