Usually means: Aged, shriveled variety of apple.
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  1. apple-john: Wordnik
  2. apple-john: Wiktionary
  3. Apple-john: Dictionary.com
  4. Apple-john: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  5. apple-john: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  6. Apple-john: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  7. Apple-john: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (1898)
  8. apple-john: FreeDictionary.org
  9. Apple-john: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)

Definitions from Wiktionary (Apple-john)

noun:  Alternative spelling of applejohn [(obsolete) A variety of apple which can be kept for a long period, gradually becoming dry and withered; known today as the French crab.]

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