The action or an act of cutting down a tree or trees; = felling, n. 1c. Since the 19th cent. chiefly North American, Australian, and New Zealand.
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| 释义 | the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > felling trees (35) fallinga1425 The action or an act of cutting down a tree or trees; = felling, n. 1c. Since the 19th cent. chiefly North American, Australian, and New Zealand. felling1447 The action or an act of cutting down a tree or trees; the practice of cutting down trees or timber. fell1531 The action of fell, v., in various senses. The action of cutting down timber; (concrete) the timber cut down in one season; = fall, n.2 3. Obsolete. fall1535 A felling of trees; the timber cut down in a particular place at one time, or in one season. Now rare (chiefly English regional in later use). woodfall1588 a felling of trees for their wood, a cutting of timber. slaughter1657 figurative. An excessive cutting down of trees. logging1706 The action of felling timber or hewing it into logs. Also concrete. A quantity of timber felled. tree-felling1759 fallage1788 The action or process of felling or cutting down trees. Formerly also: †the right to fell trees in a particular tract of land (obsolete). Cf. fellage… slashing1822 North American. The action of felling trees, esp. as a preliminary to clearing a tract of forest by burning. fellage1839 The action or an act of cutting down trees; felling. Cf. fallage, n. wood-cutting1872 The action or employment of cutting down trees for wood, or of cutting wood with saws or other appliances. Also attributive. throw1879 spec. †(a) The action or an act of felling timber; (also) the direction in which a tree is felled. Cf. fall, n.2 3. Obsolete. (b) The uprooting… bush-falling1882 the felling of trees in the bush. drive1899 Australian and New Zealand. The action or an act of felling a number of trees by cutting into the trunk of each one, so that the whole group… bushwhacking1906 Felling or clearing bush (with an axe). New Zealand. clear-cutting1922 the cutting down and removal of every tree in a given area. coupe1922 A periodic felling of trees; also, the area so cleared. landnam1950 the clearance of forested land for (usually short-term) agricultural purposes; esp. such an event as evidenced by sudden changes in pollen spectra. Subcategories:— felled trees (1) — cut in tree (4) — quantity felled (8) — belt cut separately (1) — rod marking fall boundary (1) — sustained yield (1) |
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