chesnut

chesnut (plural chesnuts)

1. Obsolete spelling of chestnut.
   • 1761, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, A discourse upon the origin and foundation of the inequality among mankind, page 195:

     This I know by my own experience, having compared the produce of two pieces of land of equal area and quality, one sowed with wheat, and the other planted with chesnut trees.

   • 1908, Perceval Landon, Thurnley Abbey:

     An owl cried among the silent Spanish chesnuts on the slope outside.