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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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
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
"Twenty paces to a hackmatack tree, north," read Jamie.
From Troop One of the Labrador by Wallace, Dillon
In the spring he had laid the keel and riveted securely to it the squared hackmatack knees.
From International Short Stories American by Various
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
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