a dark golden-brown or reddish-brown horse a small horny callus on the inner surface of a horse's leg edible nut of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea any of several attractive deciduous trees yellow-brown in autumn; yield a hard wood and edible nuts in a prickly bur wood of any of various chestnut trees of the genus Castanea used of hair; of a golden brown to reddish brown color; "a chestnut horse"; "chestnut hair
American: A hardwood tree that grows in the northeastern United States; the wood is coarse in texture, moderately light and strong It is grayish brown or brown in color It seasons well and is easily worked with tools
A stale joke In The Broken Sword, an old melodrama by William Dillon, Captain Xavier is for ever telling the same jokes with variations He was telling about one of his exploits connected with a cork-tree, when Pablo corrects him, A chestnut-tree you mean, captain Bah! (replied the captain) I say a cork-tree A chestnut-tree, insists Pablo I must know better than you (said the captain); it was a cork-tree, I say A chestnut (persisted Pablo) I have heard you tell the joke twenty-seven times, and I am sure it was a chestnut Is not this an illustration of the enduring vitality of the `chestnut'? [joke] - Notes and Queries Chestnut Sunday Rogation Sunday, or the Sunday before Ascension Day
This is a tie-breaker or slogan that has been around a long time or one similar to an old chestnut that has been modified slightly Unfortunately as unoriginal as they are, they are still winning competitions
Something that is chestnut is dark reddish-brown in colour. a woman with chestnut hair. a chestnut mare. red-brown in colour. Any of four species of deciduous ornamental and timber trees of the genus Castanea, in the beech family. Native to temperate regions of the Northern Hemisphere, they bear burrlike fruits that contain two or three edible nuts. The usually tall trees have furrowed bark and lance-shaped leaves. The American chestnut (C. dentata), which once extended over a large area of eastern North America, has been almost eliminated by chestnut blight. The other three species are the European chestnut (C. sativa), the Chinese chestnut (C. mollissima), and the Japanese chestnut (C. crenata). The nuts of these three have local importance as food and are exported in large quantities, and varieties of all three are cultivated as ornamentals. The European chestnut produces useful timber as well; the American chestnut also was an important source of lumber and nuts before the arrival of the blight. chestnut blight horse chestnut family water chestnut
This nut of the chestnut tree was once abundant in America, but most were killed by a fungus at the turn of the century The many varieties of chestnuts can be boiled, candied, dried, preserved, pureed, roasted, or ground into flour
[ 'ches(t)-(")n&t ] (noun.) 14th century. Middle English chasteine, chesten chestnut tree, from Middle French chastaigne, from Latin castanea, from Greek kastanea.