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1n.
See 1832 quote.
Quotations
1832
The process of burning comes next--for this you choose a dry and windy day, and kindling some of the brush-heaps on the windward side of the field, the fire is generally communicated to the rest, by running along the dried leaves on the ground, or catching from heap to heap. . . .
1924
Scarred logs . . . were yanked into fresh piles . . . and the brandings were thus prepared for a fresh burning.
2n.
an area that has been burnt out by a forest fire, characterized by charred stumps and rampikes.
Quotations
1938
Leaving the river at a forks on a red hot day, August 6, amid swarms of flies, the scent started over moors and burnings crossed by heavily bushed water courses.
3n. — Mining, Hist.
See 1897 WILSON quote.
See: burn ((v.))(def. 2)
Quotations
1897
A great many of the miners . . . in the winter resort to . . . "burning."
1897
This is called burning, and is done by drifting, melting away the frost by fire and taking out only the pay dirt, leaving the glacial drift and surface intact.