1665 in H. S. Nourse (1884) 79 A slipe of medow ground Runing through the most part of a great pine plaine.
1779 in (1886) 2nd Ser. 2 464 [We] encampt on a pine plain by the side of a Large flatt.
a1817 T. Dwight (1821) II. 158 The lands..are either pine-plains, or intervals.
2001 May 38/1 Historically the pine plains burned as often as every five years.