hackmatack
AmericanEtymology
Origin of hackmatack
1765–75, earlier hackmetack woods, hakmantak dense forest or interwoven shrubbery of tamarack or other conifers; probably < Western Abenaki
Example Sentences
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He dropped his unwieldy musket, and clambered into a blackened and branchy hackmatack, so small that he feared the rush of the bull might break it down.
From The House in the Water A Book of Animal Stories by Bull, Charles Livingston
He looked directly ahead, but saw no hackmatack within a reasonable extension of his twenty paces to account for the longer strides the original pacer may have taken.
From Troop One of the Labrador by Wallace, Dillon
Forty paces west to a round rock," he read, observing, "that won't be so hard now as findin' the hackmatack tree.
From Troop One of the Labrador by Wallace, Dillon
He made a hurried sign to the on-coming figure to follow him, ran ahead, and halted at last in the cover of a hackmatack bush.
From Clarence by Harte, Bret
I think about 150 tons of yellow pine and 50 of hackmatack, if the sledding continues three weeks longer.
From The Chignecto Isthmus and its first settlers by Trueman, Howard
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