blowdown†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a tree blown down by wind.

Quotations

1923

. . . she came to the upthrust roots of a blow-down. . . .

1947

. . . among the slash and the blowdowns are raspberries bigger and sweeter than any ever grown by man.