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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The scouring-rush, Equisetum hyemale: so called as being used for scouring dishes of pewter or other metal.
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Beneath where the ponds are bushy mare's-tails grow, and on the moist banks jointed pewterwort; some of the broad bronze leaves of water-weeds seem to try and conquer the pond and cover it so firmly that
The Life of the Fields Richard Jefferies 1867
hernesheir commented on the word pewterwort
Top row, on the qwerty keyboard.
July 2, 2010