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hessian boot
(wn) | Hessian boot
n 1: (19th century) a man's high tasseled boot [syn: {Hessian
boot}, hessian, jackboot, Wellington, {Wellington
boot}] |
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Hessian boots
(gcide) | Hessian \Hes"sian\, a.
Of or relating to Hesse, in Germany, or to the Hessians.
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Hessian boots, or Hessians, boot of a kind worn in
England, in the early part of the nineteenth century,
tasseled in front. --Thackeray.
Hessian cloth, or Hessians, a coarse hempen cloth for
sacking.
Hessian crucible. See under Crucible.
Hessian fly (Zool.), a small dipterous fly or midge
(Cecidomyia destructor). Its larv[ae] live between the
base of the lower leaves and the stalk of wheat, and are
very destructive to young wheat; -- so called from the
erroneous idea that it was brought into America by the
Hessian troops, during the Revolution.
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