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down timber N. Amer.
A heap or tract of fallen trees, brought down by wind or storm or other natural agent.
1881W. O. Stoddard E. Hardery 263 There was plenty of old ‘down timber’ to be cut up, and cleared away. 1895H. S. Somerset Land of Muskeg 170 (caption) Horses in down timber. 1948Sierra Club Bull. (San Francisco) Mar. 111 Up interminable slopes of down timber, where the small logs repeatedly broke under the weight of man and pack. 1951R. P. Hobson Grass beyond Mountains 136 Windfalls or down timber lay piled up between the trees. |