DCHP-3

blaze ((v.))

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1v.

chop a piece of bark from a tree so as to reveal the white wood to serve as a marker.

Quotations

1788
There must be due care to . . . blaze healthy trees. . . .
1793
[LITTLEHALE Journal] I observed many trees blazed and various figures of Indians . . . and animals drawn upon them, descriptive of the tribes, nations and numbers that had passed.
1923
They even marked trails by blazing trees as they went. . . .
2v.

mark or identify (a trail, property line, etc.) by cutting a series of blazes in trees.

See: blazing

Quotations

1872
It took us two or three days to complete this line . . . two of us cutting out a line and blazing the line, the others building and baiting the traps.
1952
Joseph walked back to the woodlot that day and blazed a road for the fall chopping. . . .
1965
The trail . . . cleared, blazed, bridged and fence-stiled in a six-month crash program by early 1964.