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- noun Plural form of
chewink .
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Examples
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There was a veritable paradise of birds in the pine barren, Dick Sherrill had said, robins and bluebirds, flickers and woodpeckers with blazing cockades, shrikes and chewinks.
Diane of the Green Van Leona Dalrymple
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Tree toads sang on the cool rocks beneath them, chewinks nested under gnarled roots among them, rose-breasted grosbeaks sang in grape-vines clambering over the thickets, and Singing Water ran close beside.
The Harvester 1911
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The young chewinks left their nests in the pasture on the third, and the chewink's feelings expressed themselves in song for two weeks after that.
Some Summer Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905
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Latest among the singers are the chewinks, the wood pewees, the field sparrows, and, of course, the goldfinches and the cuckoos.
Some Summer Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905
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Young chewinks are being fed down among the ripening
Some Summer Days in Iowa Frederick John Lazell 1905
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Great shiny blue, crestless jays flitted over the scrub; shy black and white and chestnut chewinks flirted into sight and out again among the heaps of dead brush; red-bellied woodpeckers, sticking to the tree trunks, turned their heads calmly; gray lizards, big, ugly red-headed lizards, swift slender lizards with blue tails raced across the dry leaves or up tree trunks, making even more fuss and clatter than the noisy cinnamon-tinted thrashers in the underbrush.
The Firing Line 1899
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The chewinks flashed from the ground to the fences and trees, and back, crying
At the Foot of the Rainbow Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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As always, a few crows cawed above the deep woods, and the chewinks threshed about among the dry leaves.
At the Foot of the Rainbow Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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Tree toads sang on the cool rocks beneath them, chewinks nested under gnarled roots among them, rose-breasted grosbeaks sang in grape-vines clambering over the thickets, and Singing Water ran close beside.
The Harvester Gene Stratton-Porter 1893
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Robins, flickers, and downy woodpeckers, chewinks and rose-breasted grosbeaks, among other feathered agents, may be detected in the act of gormandizing on the fruit, whose undigested seeds they will disperse far and wide.
Wild Flowers Worth Knowing Neltje Blanchan 1891
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