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