hessian : Idioms & Phrases
hessian boot
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noun (19th century) a man's high tasseled boot
Wellington boot; jackboot; hessian; Wellington.
WordNet
Hessian boots , ∨ Hessians
- boot of a kind worn in England, in the early part of the nineteenth century, tasseled in front. Thackeray.
Webster 1913
Hessian cloth , ∨ Hessians
- a coarse hempen cloth for sacking.
Webster 1913
Hessian crucible
- . See under
Crucible .
Webster 1913
Hessian fly
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noun small fly whose larvae damage wheat and other grains
Mayetiola destructor.
WordNet
(Zoöl.) , a small dipterous fly or midge (Cecidomyia destructor ). Its larvæ 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.