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Definition of hackmatack in English: hackmatacknoun ˈhakmətakˈhækməˌtæk Any of a number of North American coniferous trees, in particular the tamarack. Example sentencesExamples - Here, among the alders and young hackmatacks, at the foot of the apple tree, Lennie had dug a beautiful hole, five feet long, three feet wide, three feet deep.
- She brought her tea-pot with her, and made herself a good cup of tea over a fire kindled from the hackmatacks, bleached white, so many of which you see standing like skeletons down on the shoulders of the mountain, just as though a great grave-yard had been shaken open by an earthquake.
- There is also oak, and maple, beech and hackmatacks.
- Little and white and high on a smooth round hill it stood, with hackmatacks and apple-trees before it, and a big barn-roof beyond.
- The time has come for the hackmatacks to turn golden before shedding their needles for the winter.
Origin Late 18th century: perhaps from Western Abnaki. Definition of hackmatack in US English: hackmatacknounˈhækməˌtækˈhakməˌtak Any of a number of North American coniferous trees, in particular the tamarack. Example sentencesExamples - The time has come for the hackmatacks to turn golden before shedding their needles for the winter.
- She brought her tea-pot with her, and made herself a good cup of tea over a fire kindled from the hackmatacks, bleached white, so many of which you see standing like skeletons down on the shoulders of the mountain, just as though a great grave-yard had been shaken open by an earthquake.
- Little and white and high on a smooth round hill it stood, with hackmatacks and apple-trees before it, and a big barn-roof beyond.
- There is also oak, and maple, beech and hackmatacks.
- Here, among the alders and young hackmatacks, at the foot of the apple tree, Lennie had dug a beautiful hole, five feet long, three feet wide, three feet deep.
Origin Late 18th century: perhaps from Western Abnaki. |