Hackmatack meaning

hăk'mə-tăk'
A larch, a tree of the species Larix laricina.
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Any of several North American trees, especially the tamarack.
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The wood of these trees.
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A balsam poplar, a tree of the species Populus balsamifera.
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Origin of hackmatack

  • Earlier hakmantak, hacmontac perhaps from Western Abenaki
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • In the 19th century, some authorities questioned if tacamahac, tamarack, and hackmatack could be cognate to one another, perhaps all corruptions of one term, but such cognancy is unlikely.
    From Wiktionary
  • Believed to derive from Abenaki, though no specific etymon has been found. The term is first attested in the 1760s–90s, when it was spelled hakmantak and referred to dense forest.
    From Wiktionary
  • Compare the late 19th century German Low German term Hackemtackem (“tacamahac (medicinal resin)”).
    From Wiktionary

Hackmatack Sentence Examples

  • The Siberian larch has smooth grey bark and smaller cones, approaching in shape somewhat to those of the American hackmatack; it seems even hardier than the Alpine tree, growing up to latitude 68°, but, as the inclement climate of the polar shores is neared, dwindling down to a dwarf and even trailing bush.

  • Plantations have been made in America with an economic view, the tree growing much faster, and producing good timber at an earlier age than the native hackmatack (or tamarack), while the wood is less ponderous, and therefore more generally applicable.

  • The genus is represented in the eastern parts of North America by the hackmatack (L.

  • The hackmatack is one of the most valuable timber trees of America; it is in great demand in the ports of the St Lawrence for shipbuilding.

  • In the timber and building yards the " red " hackmatack is the kind preferred, the produce, probably, of L.

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