单词 | wood-lot |
释义 | > as lemmaswood-lot wood-lot n. [lot n. 10] originally U.S. a plot of land containing or consisting of woodland. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > lumbering > [noun] > land suitable for lumbering wood-lot1658 timber-limit1854 1658 in Suffolk Deeds (Suffolk County, Mass.) (1885) III. 174 I heeretofore purchased..all the rights to any wood Lott. 1706 Town Records (Manchester, Mass.) (1889) I. 115 It is Voted and agreed to lay out 50 or 60 Acors of land at the west end of our common for a wood lot. 1742 in W. M. Sargent Maine Wills (1887) 473 A third part of a Wood Lott for Cutting of ye wood or for feeding. 1866 J. R. Lowell Lessing in Among my Bks. (1870) 304 He would soon be driven to the cutting of green stuff from his own wood-lot, more rich in smoke than fire. 1975 N.Z. Jrnl. Agric. Sept. 25/2 Burning requires fuel, but..piles of branches from the woodlots..are soon used up. 1976 Shooting Times & Country Mag. 18–24 Nov. 37/1 Not that Jim wouldn't shoot a woodcock that got up in front of him, or a pheasant from the plough between a couple of woodlots. < as lemmas |
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