Weymouth pine

[after Thomas Thynne (d.1714), 1st Viscount of Weymouth]

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a tall, stately pine, Pinus strobus, of eastern Canada, much used for shipmasts in colonial days and providing the basis for the lumber industry.

See: white pine(def. 1a)

Quotations

1770

The arrows are made from Weymouth pine; they are slender, light, perfectly straight, and about three feet long.

1832

The white, yellow, or Weymouth pine, is the monarch of our forest, growing to the height of 130 feet. . . .

1956

Eastern white pine [is also called] white pine, Weymouth pine. . . .