单词 | fellage |
释义 | fellagen. Now rare. The action or an act of cutting down trees; felling. Cf. fallage n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > felling trees fallinga1425 felling1447 fell1531 fall1535 woodfall1588 slaughter1657 logging1706 tree-felling1759 fallage1788 slashing1822 fellage1839 wood-cutting1872 throw1879 bush-falling1882 drive1899 bushwhacking1906 clear-cutting1922 coupe1922 landnam1950 1839 P. J. Bailey Festus 12 Why score the young green bole For fellage? 1869 J. E. A. Smith Hist. Pittsfield, Mass. iii. 77 The settlers were, indeed, not accustomed to attempt these monsters of the forest by fellage with the axe, but by the slower process of girdling and burning. 1883 Trans. Bristol & Gloucs. Archaeol. Soc. 1882–3 7 288 There was a fellage of magnificent oaks in this wood eight years ago and it still contains some very fine timber. 2003 A. Olabe tr. M. G. Uranga Basque Econ. xiv. 122 In a normal, thirty-year cycle, they would have been ready for fellage around 1990 and 1995. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2017; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1839 |
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