Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for CHOKE'-PEAR
CHOKE'-PEAR, n.
- A kind of pear that has a rough astringent taste, and is swallowed with difficulty, or which contracts the parts of the mouth.
- An aspersion or sarcasm by which a person is put to silence. [A low term.] Clarissa.
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