Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Same as
hards .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The coarse part of flax or hemp; hards.
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- noun The
coarse part offlax orhemp ;hards .
Etymologies
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Examples
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According to a 1938 Popular Mechanics article calling hemp a Billion Dollar Crop, hemp hurds "can be used to produce more than 25,000 products, ranging from dynamite to Cellophane".
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Liddill Tukkz Kitteh hurds t3h canz oapunnurr andz ranz az fasstz az himz coodz!
Iz ready now? Iz ready now? - Lolcats 'n' Funny Pictures of Cats - I Can Has Cheezburger? 2008
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Department of Agriculture invented a process for making paper from hemp hurds — the pulp leftover after fiber stripping.
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Hemp hurds are 77% highest-quality cellulose, ideal for not only acid-free paper, but everything from plastics to cellophane, to ....
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Hemp hurds are 77% highest-quality cellulose, ideal for not only acid-free paper, but everything from plastics to cellophane, to ....
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You might say the assault was officially set in motion by BULLETIN No. 404, released by the United States Department of Agriculture on October 14, 1916, announcing the superiority of using hemp hurds for making paper of highest quality — and cheaply, once mechanization reduced the labor intensity of hemp harvesting.
King Hemp part 3: We Got Mugged---So Let's Get Hemp Back 2007
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Department of Agriculture invented a process for making paper from hemp hurds — the pulp leftover after fiber stripping.
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The strikes were swingled again, and from the refuse called swingle-tree hurds, coarse bagging could be spun and woven.
Home Life in Colonial Days Alice Morse Earle 1881
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If auntie gets deported, I will see hurds of pig flying out my window.
Michelle Malkin 2010
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Bison are shot that wonder onto ranchers land’s, bruceloses the ranchers don’t want to vacinate their huge hurds, same with wolves, even though the rancher’s get repaid if a wolf takes down their cash cow’s…
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