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tamarack|ˈtæməræk|
Also 9 -ac, -ach (erron. tamarisk), tamerack, temerack.
[app. a native Indian name in Canada.]
a. Any of several North American larches, esp. the red larch, Larix laricina; = hackmatack.
b. The shore pine, Pinus contorta, or the lodgepole pine, P.c. var. latifolia, of western North America; also, the timber of any of these trees.
1805W. Clark Jrnl. 14 Sept. in Orig. Jrnls. Lewis & Clark Exped. (1905) III. 66 The Mountains..thickly Strowed with falling timber & Pine Spruce fur Hackmatak & Tamerack. 1810F. A. Michaux Histoire des Arbres Forestieres I. 29 American larch..Hacmatack..Tamarack par les Hollandois du New-Jersey. [a1817T. Dwight Trav. New Eng., etc. (1821) I. 36 Hacmontac, or Tamarisk.] 1817W. Keyes Jrnl. 25 Aug. in Wisconsin Mag. Hist. (1920) III. 351 Crossed a large meadow, a temerack swamp &c. 1841F. Cooper Deerslayer xxiii, The tamarack is healthiest in the swamp. 1842G. Barstow Hist. N. Hampsh. 453 Boughs of the tamarac and spruce overhang the road. 1855Longfellow Hiaw. vii. 48 Give me of your roots, O Tamarack! 1874Coues Birds N.W. 152 Nesting in the tamarack swamps and windfalls of Minnesota. 1894Outing XXIV. 94/1 By vigorous working of three paddles we got up a ‘tamarack breeze’ that carried us rapidly along. 1947R. Peattie Sierra Nevada 160 Lodgepole pine..is plain tamarack to many Californians. 1979J. van de Wetering Maine Massacre xix. 225 The only decorations, hanging from hooks on the low, handhewn tamarack beams, were tools and weapons. |