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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Recollections of the Inhabitants, Localities, Superstitions, and KuKlux Outrages of the Carolinas. By a "Carpet-Bagger" Who Was Born and Lived There] Reference

Here were the chincapin-bushes, like miniature chestnut-trees, and here were the beautiful poplars.    From Wordnik.com.  [What Might Have Been Expected] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  [Marion Harland's autobiography : the story of a long life,] Reference

First dye it with copperas, then prepare a dye of the following ingredients: chincapin leaves and buds, alder bushes, sour-wood leaves, sumach boughs and leaves, and parsley.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Young Housewife's Counsellor and Friend: Containing Directions in Every Department of Housekeeping. Including the Duties of Wife and Mother] Reference

There was one, a little dark-moustached Spaniard, who was listening and peering at him, with eyes black and pointed as a chincapin, and, murmuring softly in Spanish, turned and went away.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Memories of Fifty Years Containing Brief Biographical Notices of Distinguished Americans, and Anecdotes of Remarkable Men; Interspersed with Scenes and Incidents Occurring during a Long Life of Observation Chiefly Spent in the Southwest] Reference

Page 493 passion flower and the Turk's-cap lily, and on the mountain sides the poplar or tulip-tree, the hickory, ash, black and white walnut, the holly, the chincapin, the alder, and the chestnut, each in profusion.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Great South; A Record of Journeys in Louisiana, Texas, the Indian Territory, Missouri, Arkansas, Mississippi, Alabama, Georgia, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, and Maryland] Reference

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.    From Wordnik.com.  ["The Free Negroes of North Carolina"] Reference

"Oh! these are to thresh the chincapin bushes, when we get there!.    From Wordnik.com.  [Her Mother's Secret] Reference

Oh! please, where are the big chincapin thickets we have heard so much about? "inquired Elva, in whose ideas these nuts were, after all, the most immediately important item in their errand to the farm.    From Wordnik.com.  [Her Mother's Secret] Reference

With chincapin saucers and acorn-cups.    From Wordnik.com.  [The Nursery, Number 164 A Monthly Magazine for Youngest Readers] Reference