Definition of "chincapin" []

• Alternative form of chinquapin. (noun)

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• "In addition to those mentioned, however, as constituting a portion of the staple articles, may be mentioned some of the forest nuts and fruits, such as the chincapin, which is a small nut of the chestnut family, only smaller, sweeter and having the shape of a top."
• "Page 43 place in my regard as the maker of the very best whistles and fifes of chincapin bark of any one I had ever known."
• "A meagre, whitish soil, thirsty and unrecuperative, afforded grudging sustenance to a puny, grotesque growth of blackjack and chincapin, even the renovating pine -- the badge of the State -- being in many places a rarity."