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Definition of Chincapins
1. chincapin [n] - See also: chincapin
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chincapins
Literary usage of Chincapins
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Classics Old and New: A Series of School Readers : A Third Reader by Edwin Anderson Alderman (1906)
"What are chincapins? Why, don't you know? All the children that live in the South
know ... The chincapins grow in little burrs, like tiny chestnut burrs; ..."
2. Courage and Comfort: Or, Sunday Morning Thoughts by James Britton Cranfill (1908)
"Here is this glorious Lone Star State there are thousands of square miles of
territory where the chincapins grow and where the sweet-gum trees are found in ..."
3. The American Forest: Or, Uncle Philip's Conversations with the Children by Lambert Lilly (1834)
"Uncle Philip, I should like to go into some of the Southern States, on purpose
to taste those chincapins; I have a suspicion that they must be uncommonly ..."
4. Harper's New Monthly Magazine by Henry Mills Alden (1883)
"... other fields and the orchard of the Farms by a thicket of chincapins. The two
were therefore well hidden ; they were safe from discovery save for the ..."
5. The Great South: A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian by Edward King (1875)
"... which has been described as a "darkling wood" covered with "a dense undergrowth
of low-limbed and scraggy pines, stiff and bristling chincapins, ..."
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