See quotations.

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1792.  On some mountains we find a shrubbery of hemlock and spruce…. These are called by the Indians, Hakmantaks.—Jeremy Belknap, ‘New Hampshire,’ iii. 33. (N.E.D.)

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1801.  

        My Tabitha Towzer is fair,
  No Guinea pig ever was sweeter,
Like a hackmatak slender and spare,
  And sweet as a muskrat, or sweeter.
The Port Folio, i. 264 (Phila.).    

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1821.  Hacmontac I take to be the Indian name.—T. Dwight, ‘Travels,’ i. 36. (N.E.D.) (Italics in the original.)

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1834.  He was like one of those warped, gnarled, scrub hackmatacks of the second growth, that are found in great plenty in Barre swamp.—Vermont Free Press, Nov. 29.

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1851.  The American Larch, known very generally in New England by the aboriginal name of Hackmatack, is sometimes known to attain an elevation of seventy feet, but does not usually exceed forty or fifty feet.—John S. Springer, ‘Forest Life,’ p. 33 (N.Y.).

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