hardhack
Americannoun
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a woolly-leaved North American shrub, Spiraea tomentosa, of the rose family, having short, spikelike clusters of rose-colored flowers.
noun
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Origin of hardhack
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Take an infusion of hardhack, strain, and add a table-spoonful of finely-pulverized charcoal to every three quarts of fluid.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd
The waste lands shine yellow with the blooms of the marching hardhack.
From Minstrel Weather by Marian Storm
Should a diarrhœa attend the malady, give an occasional drink of hardhack tea.
From The American Reformed Cattle Doctor by George Dadd
Some of the time he could hardly see the narrow sidewalk path between the dusty meadowsweet and hardhack bushes, since those floating black threads wove together into a veritable veil before him.
From The Copy-Cat and Other Stories by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman
When she came to a lonely place in the road, when she was walking between stone-walls overgrown with poison-ivy, and meadowsweet, and hardhack, and golden-rod, she opened the letter.
From By the Light of the Soul A Novel by Harold M. Brett
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