Cut down unwanted new growth on an area of cleared land.
45 acres were sucker-bashed
Example sentencesExamples
- Hand labor would also be utilized to remove small-diameter eucalyptus trees and to sucker bash sprouts that grow after initial thinning activities.
- Victor would walk with an axe over his shoulder, just in case he came across a tree that needed sucker bashing or ring barking.
- The trees were ringbarked but not sucker-bashed, with the result that the suckers have grown into large separate trunks.
- In the Australian pioneering tradition, extensive areas of poplar box have been ring-barked or sucker-bashed to enhance grass growth.
- The continual pulse of young seedlings contributes to a recurring need to "sucker bash" the area.