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blazing
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
See 1853 quote.
Quotations
1794
May I request . . . a report of . . . the mode of blazing. . . .
1853
Blazing is a term used by the backwoodsman for chopping off a portion of the bark from each side of a tree to mark a surveyor's line through the woods.
1963
. . . blazing [of] narrow trails . . . was undertaken, as well as the putting up of some tiny patrol cabins.