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A row or series of trees. Obsolete.
Originally U.S. A narrow stretch of wood, pasture, ice, etc. Now usually in neck of the woods: a settlement in wooded country, or a small or…
Newfoundland. A belt, clump, or grove (of trees).
(a) the line or level on a mountain above which no trees grow (cf. snow-line, n.); (b) a row of trees; the edge of a wood.
That fringes. fringing forest: see quot. 1926; fringing reef: see quot. 1878.
= fringing forest at fringing, adj.