What is "beechnuts"

Usage examples of "beechnuts".

There only toward death, which means: tossed in layers, with a few leaves and hollow beechnuts on top, lest the crows, or if foxes should come, the forester, diviners, vultures, treasure seekers, witches, if there are any, gather fetuses, make tallow candles out of them or powder to strew across thresholds ointments for everything and nothing.

Out of the woods in measured tread over beechnuts from the year before.

With Hannah she went deep into the woods to gather beechnuts while squirrels chirred and barked overhead, leaping from branch to branch in shivering outrage.

She wished for Nathaniel, but was glad of Hannah, whom she would take with her into the woods to gather the last of the beechnuts, or just to explore the mountain.

But there must be an end to everything, and so the Tree Girl brought out a bowl of beechnuts, and they forgot the stories, and ate as much as they wanted.

Their life was rougher than it had been, for they had now to subsist entirely upon the spoils of the chase, and bread made of ground acorns and beechnuts, mixed with a very small portion of flour.

Gulch, a sinister place it was, gathering beechnuts, when I said on my drum: now, children, you may go.