blaze ((n.))†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

a white mark made in a tree, usually by chopping off a slice of bark, to indicate a trail or survey line in a forest.

Quotations

1768

[[We] walked a great Way in an Indian Path, and saw several marked trees, as is practised among the Southern Indians.]

1842

These blazes are of as much use as finger posts of a dark night.

1965

The snow had come up over many of our blazes and the trapline was hard to follow. . .

2n.

a trail marked by blazes.

1833

At length . . . I had the inexpressible comfort of stumbling upon a familiar blaze, which . . . led me to my own clearing. . .

1946

"We've a plain blaze back to the yard," said Gideon.