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Definition of Hardhacks
1. hardhack [n] - See also: hardhack
Lexicographical Neighbors of Hardhacks
Literary usage of Hardhacks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Our Western Empire: Or, The New West Beyond the Mississippi: the Latest and by Linus Pierpont Brockett (1882)
"... but it is increasing, and unless it can be supplied by the wattle, the mezquite,
the sumacs, or the hardhacks, it must prove very largely destructive of ..."
2. Laurel Leaves: Original Poems, Stories, and Essays by William Fearing Gill (1884)
"As for the hardhacks, they, at least, beg to be excused from joining him in that
... As for the hardhacks, I may be allowed to say, though I despise family ..."
3. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"I see many hardhacks in the lichen pasture by Tommy Wheeler's which are leafing
out again conspicuously. I see little flocks of chip-birds along the ..."
4. In New England Fields and Woods by Rowland Evans Robinson (1896)
"Here are hardhacks, some with grain winding like the grooves of a rifle. This is
the timber the Indians made their bows of, and which now serves the same ..."
5. With Rod and Gun in New England and the Maritime Provinces by Edward Augustus Samuels (1897)
"Arriving with us early in the spring, they breed in elevated hilltop pastures,
where they remain among the bushes and hardhacks until the haying is ..."
6. The Writings of Henry David Thoreau by Henry David Thoreau (1906)
"Still it held on, from straight across the road again, some way on an old dog's
trail; had trodden and nosed very much about some hardhacks in the field ..."
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