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Definition of Chevens
1. cheven [n] - See also: cheven
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chevens
Literary usage of Chevens
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Macmillan's Magazine by John Morley, Mowbray Morris, David Masson, George Grove (1904)
"I am going to get very secretly behind a tree and dobble for chevens with a ...
There aren't any chevens in this river,'1 he said to the Poet, " only trout. ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1874)
"... and thence seductively into the water; and it will warm your heart to feel
how heartily the lumbering chevens rush to their destruction. ..."
3. Old and New London: A Narrative of Its History, Its People, and Its Places by Walter Thornbury, Edward Walford (1881)
"But what store also of barbels, trouts, chevens, perches, smelts, breams, roaches,
daces, gudgeons, flounders, shrimps, eels, &c., are commonly to be had ..."
4. The Compleat Angler, Or, The Contemplative Man's Recreation: Being a by Izaak Walton, Andrew Lang (1896)
"... way: Go to the same hole in which I caught my Chub, where, in most hot days,
you will find a dozen or twenty chevens floating near the top of the water. ..."
5. The Complete Angler of Izaak Walton and Charles Cotton: Extensively by Izaak Walton, Charles Cotton (1824)
"Go to the same hole in which I caught my Chub, where in most hot days you will
find a dozen or twenty chevens floating near the top of the water, ..."
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