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hemlock tea Hist. 
a beverage made from steeped hemlock needles and twigs.
See also: bush tea high Hyson spruce tea Yankee tea
- 1796 (1911) [Mr. McGill drinks tea made of hemlock pine.]
- 1821 After supping on bread and hemlock tea . . . I went to bed at an early hour.
- 1853 I recommend, from experience, a hemlock-bed, and hemlock-tea, with a dash of whiskey in it, merely to assist the flavour, as the best preventive.
- 1964 . . . hemlock "tea" and burned Indian corn "coffee" were the substitutes for the real articles, which were too expensive.
- 1796 (1911) [Mr. McGill drinks tea made of hemlock pine.]