Crossword clues for tamarack
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Hackmatack \Hack"ma*tack`\ (h[a^]k"m[.a]*t[a^]k`), n. [Of American Indian origin.] (Bot.) The American larch ( Larix Americana), a coniferous tree with slender deciduous leaves; also, its heavy, close-grained timber. Called also tamarack.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
also tamarac, North American black larch, 1805, probably of Algonquian origin (compare synonymous hackmatack, 1792, from a source akin to Abenaki akemantak "a kind of supple wood used for making snowshoes"), but the etymology is unclear.
Wiktionary
n. Any of several North American larches, of the genus ''Larix''; the wood from such a tree
WordNet
n. medium-sized larch of Canada and northern United States including Alaska having a broad conic crown and rust-brown scaly bark [syn: American larch, black larch, Larix laricina]
Gazetteer
Housing Units (2000): 48
Land area (2000): 3.598216 sq. miles (9.319337 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.598216 sq. miles (9.319337 sq. km)
FIPS code: 64156
Located within: Minnesota (MN), FIPS 27
Location: 46.647713 N, 93.126321 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 55787
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Headwords:
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Wikipedia
Tamarack may refer to:
Trees:- Tamarack Larch, Larix laricina, medium-size deciduous conifer native to North America
- Tamarack pine, Pinus contorta
Canada
- Tamarack, Edmonton, Alberta
- Tamarack, Ontario
United States
- Tamarack, California, in Calaveras County
- Tamarack, Placer County, California
- Tamarack, Idaho, unincorporated area southwest of New Meadows in Adams County
- Tamarack, Michigan, an unincorporated community in Gogebic County
- Tamarack City, Michigan, unincorporated community in Houghton County
- Tamarack, Minnesota, incorporated place in Aitkin County
- Tamarack, Wisconsin, unincorporated community
- Upper Tamarack River, Michigan
- Lower Tamarack River, Michigan
- Little Tamarack River, Michigan
- Tamarack Lake, a lake in Minnesota
- Tamarack River (Minnesota)
- Tamarack Swamp, Pennsylvania
- Camp Tamarack, California
- Camp Tamarack, Indiana
- Camp Tamarack, New Jersey
- Camp Tamarack (Oregon)
- Tamarack, Best of West Virginia, tourist attraction in Beckley, West Virginia
- Tamarack Camps, summer camps run by the Fresh Air Society in Bloomfield Hills, Michigan
- Tamarack Flat Campground, campground in Yosemite National Park, California
- Tamarack Golf Club, Labrador City, Newfoundland and Labrador, Canada
- Tamarack Resort, partially defunct all-season resort southwest of Donnelly in Valley County, Idaho
- Tamarack Ski Area, defunct ski hill northwest of Troy in Latah County, Idaho
- Tamarack, Canadian folk group
- Tamarack Developments Corporation, home builder in the Ottawa-Carleon region of Canada
- Tamarack Microelectronics (1987–2002), Taiwan
- Tamarack mine, Calumet, Michigan
- Tamarack Review, Canadian literary magazine
- Tamarack, An Institute for Community Engagement, Canadian charity
-
, a United States Navy patrol vessel in commission from 1917 to 1919
Tamarack is a Canadian folk music group, formed in 1978 by James Gordon, Jeff Bird and Randy Sutherland. Tamarack draws heavily on traditional themes. Their début album Music of Canada consists almost entirely of traditional songs. Later albums included a number of songs penned by band members but maintaining the traditional folk / roots style.
The history and geography of Canada are also popular inspirations. Frobisher Bay and its title track Frozen in Frobisher Bay are named after an bay on Baffin Island in the Canadian Arctic. Leaving Inverarden starts with two stories taken from the history of the fur-trading North West Company in Canada; the title track Leaving Invergarden based on the story of John MacDonald, and the track Magdalen McGillivray about his sister who married William McGillivray.
The members of the group have changed over the years. By 1986, Alex Sinclair had replaced Randy Sutherland. Melanie Doane was a member for a time, performing with them on their 1989 video On the Rideau. When Fields of Rock and Snow was released in 1991, Jeff Bird had left and Gwen Swick has joined. Molly Kurvink joined the group for the Leaving Inverarden album released in 1995. James Gordon is no longer part of the group when Spirit & Stone (2000) is recorded, which features Alex Sinclair, Molly Kurvink and Shelley Coopersmith. Shelley Coopersmith left the group in 2002, being replaced by Duncan Cameron
Tamarack has often been invited to perform at Canadian folk festivals. They have frequently played the Hillside Festival (1985, 1988, 1991, 1994, 1999), in Guelph, Ontario which is home base for several members of the group. Other festivals where they have been featured include the Winnipeg Folk Festival (1984), Ottawa Folk Festival (1997) and The Shelter Valley Folk Festival (2010). In 1997 they were inaugurated into the Order of the Porcupine Music Hall of Fame by Sugar Camp Music, a radio show produced by the University of Toronto campus radio station CIUT-FM.
A number of Tamarack songs have been covered by other artists. Mining for Gold, written by James Gordon based on a traditional theme, was on the Cowboy Junkies breakthrough album The Trinity Session. (Early Tamarack member Jeff Bird has done instrumental work on many Cowboy Junkies albums). Folk singer Laura Smith included the Leaving Inverarden song Magdalen McGillivray on her 2012 album Everything is Moving
Usage examples of "tamarack".
It consisted of a rank, coarse kind of grass, and arrowweed, mesquite, and tamarack.
To her right was a vast tangle of dreary tamarack and cedar interspersed with deadwood, bracken, and thorny shrubs.
By and by the banks of the river grew lower and marshy, and in place of the larger forest-trees which had covered them stood slender tamaracks, sickly, mossy, looking as if they had been moon-struck and were out of their wits, their tufts of leaves staring off every way from their spindling branches.
Little Becky had wanted to know last summer as she slip sloppily balanced along roily rocks and squeezed between the trunks of two high-reaching and rough-ribbed tamaracks grown up on either side of a boulder.
To pass from the town of Tamarack on the north of the mountain to Rockland on the south was like crossing from Coire to Chiavenna.
Without slowing, he batted aside tamarack limbs and ducked under balsam boughs.
The beech and maple of the eastern edges gave way to spruce and tamarack, balsam fir, and their route lay often over open ground, across high shoulders of rock and slopes of littered scree.