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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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clear land by cutting the brush (def. 1) and burning it.

See: brush ((n.))(def. 1),burn ((v.))(def. 1)

Quotations

1852

Moodie and Jacob had chopped eight acres during the winter, but these had to be burnt off and logged up before we could put in a crop of wheat for the ensuing fall.

1925

. . . in the spring the brush and log heaps had to be burned off before any crop could be put in among the stumps.