hemlocky
adjEtymology From hemlock + -y.
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Covered with hemlock.
- 10 is bad in the south line, and 9 also is cold and hemlocky.1796, Benjamin Wright, field book; quoted in Franklin B[enjamin] Hough, A History of Jefferson County in the State of New York, from the Earliest Period to the Present Time, Albany, N.Y.: Joel Munsell, […]; Watertown, N.Y.: Sterling & Riddell, 1854, page 68:
- The friends of Mr. Fillmore erected a hemlock pole at Evans on Friday last and hung their flag at half-mast. All right—a sign of distress is exceedingly appropriate for that party. Several speakers were present, we understand, and the style of oratory, was, in its argument and positions, quite as hemlocky as the pole, and as distressed as the flag at half-mast.1856 August 25, Buffalo Morning Express and Daily Democracy, volume XI, number 3286, Buffalo, N.Y., page [2], column 1:
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- The next section extending from the 18th mile to Mr. Bell’s line, the land on the east side of the line is the same as the last section, but on the west side, the the^([sic]) land is more hilly, stony and hemlocky.1858, Directory of the United Counties of Peterborough & Victoria for 1858. […], Peterborough: […] T. & R. White, […], page 50:
- The rest of the farm is either low and flat, or piny or hemlocky, or something else.1868 May 1, “[The Field.] “Bush” and “Clearing.””, in The Canada Farmer, volume V, number 9, Toronto, Ont., page 130, column 1:
- E. G. R. [The Rev. E. Gillett of Runham] in Notes and Queries, iii., Series 1, p. 236, thinks this “Bunkey” or Hemlocky Hill.1880, Walter Rye, editor, The Norfolk Antiquarian Miscellany, volume II, part I, Norwich: A[gas] H. Goose and Co. […], page 307:
- From June till October I cruised and camped, mildly, on the upper waters of the Susquehanna, getting such benefit as I might from out-door life in a piny, hemlocky region.1885 March 12, Nessmuk [pseudonym; George Washington Sears], “The Bucktail in Florida”, in Forest and Stream. […], volume XXIV, number 7, New York, N.Y.: […] [T]he Forest and Stream Publishing Company, page 124, column 1: