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Dutch rush

Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)



   {Dutch oven}, a tin screen for baking before an open fire or
      kitchen range; also, in the United States, a shallow iron
      kettle for baking, with a cover to hold burning coals.

   {Dutch pink}, chalk, or whiting dyed yellow, and used in
      distemper, and for paper staining. etc. --Weale.

   {Dutch rush} (Bot.), a species of horsetail rush or Equisetum
      ({E. hyemale}) having a rough, siliceous surface, and used
      for scouring and polishing; -- called also {scouring
      rush}, and {shave grass}. See {Equisetum}.

   {Dutch tile}, a glazed and painted ornamental tile, formerly
      much exported, and used in the jambs of chimneys and the
      like.

   Note: Dutch was formerly used for German.

               Germany is slandered to have sent none to this
               war [the Crusades] at this first voyage; and that
               other pilgrims, passing through that country,
               were mocked by the Dutch, and called fools for
               their pains.                       --Fuller.

Equisetum \Eq`ui*se"tum\, n.; pl. {Equiseta}. [L., the
   horsetail, fr. equus horse + seta a thick,, stiff hair,
   bristle.] (Bot.)
   A genus of vascular, cryptogamic, herbaceous plants; -- also
   called {horsetails}.

   Note: The {Equiseta} have hollow jointed stems and no true
         leaves. The cuticle often contains siliceous granules,
         so that one species ({E. hyemale}) is used for scouring
         and polishing, under the name of {Dutch rush} or
         {scouring rush}.
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