hackmatack
AmericanEtymology
Origin of hackmatack
1765–75, earlier hackmetack woods, hakmantak dense forest or interwoven shrubbery of tamarack or other conifers; probably < Western Abenaki
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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 Howard Trueman
"Twenty paces to a hackmatack tree, north," read Jamie.
From Troop One of the Labrador by Dillon Wallace
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 Bret Harte
It did not take them long to find the hackmatack tree, and in doing so they stumbled upon the pile of rocks Jamie had built up for a compass rest.
From Troop One of the Labrador by Dillon Wallace
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 Charles Livingston Bull
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