horse-chestnut / chestnut / chestnut brown / A token used as a control of the presence of someone at his post / firecracker (on a rocket) / punch (with the fist) / head

maroon (a slave or animal who has run away to live free)

(France) brown

that has become wild again (used of a slave or animal who has returned to a free or wild state) / illicit, crooked (of professions)

a French surname, equivalent to English Marron

marron glacé (chestnut preserved in sugar or syrup and flavoured with vanilla)

(Antilles) wild boar

to pull someone's chestnuts out of the fire (to do someone else's difficult work)

a surname from Italian, equivalent to English Marroni

plural of marron glacé