DCHP-1 Online

chico(t) [< CdnF < F chicot stump]

• n. a tree stub, especially a rampike or deadhead.

  See also: deadhead  rampike  

  • 1832  Great caution is required to avoid sunken trees, called snags or planters, and by the Canadians chicots. . . .
  • 1931  I climbed the knoll, and there . . . sat my friend and mentor at the foot of one of the chicos. . . .