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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It brought him not to a hackmatack tree, but to the middle of several spruce trees.
From Troop One of the Labrador by Wallace, Dillon
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
This bunch I hangs in the only hackmatack tree handy about.
From Left on the Labrador A Tale of Adventure Down North by Wallace, Dillon
"Twenty paces to a hackmatack tree, north," read Jamie.
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
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