Definitions for HEMP

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HEMP hemp

Spelling: [hemp]

IPA: /hɛmp/

Hemp is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 11 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 29 anagrams from letters in HEMP (ehmp).

Definitions for HEMP

noun

1. Also called Indian hemp, marijuana. a tall, coarse plant, Cannabis sativa, that is native to Asia but naturalized or cultivated in many parts of the world and is the source of a valuable fiber as well as drugs such as marijuana and hashish. Compare cannabis.
2. the tough fiber of this plant, used for making rope, coarse fabric, etc.
3. any of various plants resembling hemp.
4. any of various fibers similar to hemp.
5. a narcotic drug, as marijuana or hashish, prepared from the hemp plant.

Origin of HEMP

before 1000; Middle English; Old English henep, hænep; cognate with German Hanf, Greek kánnabis

Examples for HEMP

The fate of hemp production in America hangs in the balance.

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

“Make the most of the hemp seed and grow it everywhere,” George Washington instructed his new America.

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

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

A total ban on hemp production was enacted in the late 1950s.

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

If not for movies like Dazed and Confused, hemp would have all but disappeared from American discourse.

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

Those trying to get high from hemp are likely to have about as much luck as those chugging O'Doul's.