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Chestnut Trademark 
n. a light, seaworthy canoe made of cedar and capable of carrying a sail.
See also: cedar canoe
- 1922 A seventeen-foot "Chestnut" . . . a few simple instruments, and a carbine Winchester, comprised the outfit.
- 1933 Our canoes are both eighteen-foot Chestnuts, very strong and deep, excellent in rough water.
- 1963 The canoe . . . was a sixteen-foot Chestnut, made of eastern cedar, canvas-covered. . . .
- 1922 A seventeen-foot "Chestnut" . . . a few simple instruments, and a carbine Winchester, comprised the outfit.