chesnut
See also: Chesnut
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]chesnut (plural chesnuts)
- Obsolete spelling of chestnut.
- 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 195:
- This I know by my own experience, having compared the produce of two pieces of land of equal area and quality, one sowed with wheat, and the other planted with chesnut trees.
- 1908, Perceval Landon, Thurnley Abbey:
- An owl cried among the silent Spanish chesnuts on the slope outside.