单词 | fellable |
释义 | fellableadj. Of a tree or timber: that can be felled; fit or ready to be cut down for fuel or building material. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [adjective] > felling fellable1580 forest-felling1841 arboricidal1866 1580–1 Act 23 Elizabeth I c. 5 §1 in Statutes of Realm (1963) IV. i. 667 Felleable Woodes serving for Fewell. 1609 F. Pulton De Pace Regis et Regni f. 105 Timber fit for building, & other vses, as also all other fellable woods seruing for fuell. 1645 J. Vicars Gods Arke 36 Woods, groves, springs, or other land where fellable wood was. 1711 London Gaz. No. 4837/3 A good Quantity of Timber, great part of it fellable. 1717 Dict. Rusticum (ed. 2) at Tiller A little Tree left to grow till it be fellable. 1830 A. E. Bray Fitz of Fitz-ford II. i. 5 These woods cannot possibly be considered under the clause of cædua sylva..fellable wood. 1887 Indian Forester 13 437 The aptitude of the Kumaonis in..noting every fellable tree which grows on the steep hill sides. 1907 Q. Jrnl. Forestry 1 371 It is now considered necessary to revise our calculations of fellable material at short intervals. 2011 Irish Examiner (Nexis) 6 Apr. I fear there won't be enough fellable trees to cope with the extra supplements. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.1580 |
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