hemp

Old Noll had a noose of hemp ready for horse-stealers, were they for King or for Parliament.

As to hemp, it grows so strong as to be much fitter for making cables than cloth.

It wouldn't be very hard; I could plait you one myself if I only had some hemp.'

Or sow with hemp all the borders where cabbages are planted, so as to enclose them, and not one of these vermin will approach.

She will remember now that a skein of hemp thread is not the thing to line her nest with.

Sheets and table-cloths were of flax or hemp; dishes were of brass or pewter.

In practising knot-tying a short piece of hemp rope may be used.

Hemp plantations and a large number of cattle were destroyed.

I grind at mill       Their malt up still;   I dress their hemp, I spin their tow.

Yet how will it dilate on the Odyssean smell of hemp and tar!