| 单词 | timber-limit |
| 释义 | > as lemmastimber-limit timber-limit n. (a) Canadian see quot. 1876; (b) any tract of forested land suitable for lumbering; (c) = timberline n. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > land suitable for lumbering wood-lot1658 timber-limit1854 the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > land suitable for lumbering > licensed timber berth1837 timber-limit1854 the world > the earth > land > landscape > high land > mountain > [noun] > range > tree-limit timber-limit1854 timberline1867 tree-line1893 tree-limit1934 1854 T. C. Keefer Ottawa 56 No timber limits are without water—for it is by water alone that the timber can reach its market. 1876 Encycl. Brit. IV. 774/1 The Governments of the different provinces [Canada] grant licences..to cut timber over vast tracts of land, under the name of ‘timber limits’. 1890 Grip (Toronto) 8 Feb. 83/2 A Journal..is..agitated lest, by disputing our timber-limits.., the Ontario Government shall bring the province to direct taxation. 1898 W. T. Jennings Rep. Routes to Yukon 9 The whole valley and slopes to the timber limit are clothed with cotton-wood, spruce and alder trees. 1914 H. Bindloss Intriguers 108 We want to get as far north as the timber limit. 1960 Ottawa Citizen 18 June 38/5 A Blackfoot Indian band in 1892 surrendered a timber limit in Alberta. < as lemmas |
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