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单词 blaze-mark
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blaze-mark
2. transferred. A white mark made on a tree, generally by chipping off a slice of bark, to indicate a path or boundary in a forest; also a track indicated by a line of such marks. (First in U.S.) Also attributive in blaze-mark.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > removing bark from trees > in order to mark tree
blaze1662
1662 in S. A. Green Early Rec. Groton, Mass. (1880) 7 The meetinge house shall be set..by a small whit oak marked at the souwest side with two notches and a blaze.
1737 J. Wesley Jrnl. 3 Dec. (1739) 65 We then found another Blaze and pursued it.
1813 Mrs. Schimmelpennick tr. C. Lancelot's Tour (1816) I. 123 A little blaze here and there, on particular trees, is the only direction.
1820 R. Southey Life Wesley I. 123.
1830 J. Galt Lawrie Todd III. viii. iii. 141 We had come to the sixth mile blaize, a boundary mark on a pine.
1856 T. De Quincey Confessions Eng. Opium-eater (rev. ed.) in Select. Grave & Gay V. 243 A blaze of white paint upon a certain élite of the trees marked out by the forester as ripe for the axe.
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 7 May 4/2 Tracked by the land surveyor's blazes on the huge trunks.
1885 R. C. Praed Head Station xlvi Here were new blaze-marks; and here, upon a bottle-tree,—the bark unhealed—that old trace of Durnford's tomahawk.
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