Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun See chestnut.

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  • noun Obsolete spelling of chestnut.

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Examples

  • Some peasants outside predict a storm, and counsel us to get down into the valley as quickly as may be; so the chesnut is hastily put to, and we rattle off just as the first heavy drops come splashing down to a low accompaniment of very distant thunder.

    Untrodden Peaks and Unfrequented Valleys 1873

  • Heb. ` armon (Gen. 30: 37; Ezek. 31: 8), rendered "chesnut" in the

    Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897

  • It was a 'chesnut' from group of leading glacial-epoch experts in 1972, who stated the world was 'undoubtedly' heading for a period of serious cooling, possibly within a few hundred years.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • It was a 'chesnut' from group of leading glacial-epoch experts in 1972, who stated the world was 'undoubtedly' heading for a period of serious cooling, possibly within a few hundred years.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • It was a 'chesnut' from group of leading glacial-epoch experts in 1972, who stated the world was 'undoubtedly' heading for a period of serious cooling, possibly within a few hundred years.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • It was a 'chesnut' from group of leading glacial-epoch experts in 1972, who stated the world was 'undoubtedly' heading for a period of serious cooling, possibly within a few hundred years.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • It was a 'chesnut' from group of leading glacial-epoch experts in 1972, who stated the world was 'undoubtedly' heading for a period of serious cooling, possibly within a few hundred years.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • It was a 'chesnut' from group of leading glacial-epoch experts in 1972, who stated the world was 'undoubtedly' heading for a period of serious cooling, possibly within a few hundred years.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • It was a 'chesnut' from group of leading glacial-epoch experts in 1972, who stated the world was 'undoubtedly' heading for a period of serious cooling, possibly within a few hundred years.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

  • It was a 'chesnut' from group of leading glacial-epoch experts in 1972, who stated the world was 'undoubtedly' heading for a period of serious cooling, possibly within a few hundred years.

    Army Rumour Service 2009

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