hemp

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• Hemp

  ·noun The fiber of the skin or rind of the plant, prepared for spinning. The name has also been exte...

  Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

• hemp

  ♦ Cannabis sativa. A manufactorial plant of equal antiquity with flax. The produce of hemp in fibre ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• Ambary hemp

  ·add. ·- A valuable East Indian fiber plant (Hibiscus cannabinus), or its fiber, which is used throu...

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• Fimble hemp

  ·- Light summer hemp, that bears no seed. ...

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• Sisal hemp

  ·- The prepared fiber of the Agave Americana, or American aloe, used for cordage; — so called from ...

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• Water hemp

  ·- ·see under <<Hemp>>. ...

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• Hemp Yard

  1) Out of Petticoat Lane, in Portsoken Ward (P.C. 1732-Boyle, 1799). Not named in the maps. 2) Out...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• hemp(, Queensland)

  n. name given to the commontropical weed Sida rhombifolia, Linn., N.O. Malvaceae. Called also Paddy...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• hemp-bush

  n. the plant Plagianthuspulchellus, A. Gray, N.O. Halvaceae, native of Australiaand New Zealand. Th...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• Queensland hemp

  n. See hemp. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• carle-hemp

  that hemp which bears the seed. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• thistle hemp

  a sort of hemp that is early ripe North. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• male hemp

  , or male hemp See fimble hemp or female hemp. ...

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• female hemp

  ; female hemp, is that which is chiefly used for domestic purposes, and therefore falls to the care ...

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• fimble hemp

  ; female hemp, is that which is chiefly used for domestic purposes, and therefore falls to the care ...

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• Hemp yard, Seething Lane

  See John de Vere's Yard. ...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.