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}.