sucker-bash
verb [with object] Australian
Cut down unwanted new growth on an area of cleared land: 45 acres were sucker-bashed...
- The continual pulse of young seedlings contributes to a recurring need to "sucker bash" the area.
- 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.
Derivatives
sucker-bashing
Origin
Early 20th century: from sucker in the sense 'a new shoot growing on a plant' + bash.
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