Associations to the word «Chesapeake»

Wiktionary

CHESAPEAKE, noun. (historical) Any member of a Native American tribe that once inhabited the area now known as South Hampton Roads in Virginia, United States.
CHESAPEAKE BAY, proper noun. An estuary lying inland from the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the states of Maryland and Virginia.

Wise words

Words are always getting conventionalized to some secondary meaning. It is one of the works of poetry to take the truants in custody and bring them back to their right senses.
William Butler Yeats