vbl. sb. [f. prec.; cf. NUTTING.] The gathering of chestnuts. Also attrib.
1836. American Monthly Mag., VIII. July, 17. Did not every one know that Squire Smith’s girls, in coming home from chestnutting, had seen the Spook rowing his skiff straight up the brook, over rocks and all, to the very foot of the fall!
1872. Marylebone Mercury, 7 Dec., 4/1. A little country boy ran away from school on Monday to go chestnutting.
1884. E. P. Roe, in Harper’s Mag., Nov., 910/2. Amy wishes to have a chestnutting party to-morrow.
