DCHP-3

burnt woods

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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an area that has been burnt out by a forest fire, characterized by charred stumps and rampikes.

See: rampike,brulé(def. 1)

Quotations

1754
Level lands and burnt woods; and there are nothing but stagnated water to drink.
1888
The trail was very bad, and part of the way led through burnt woods.
1963
After desperate climbing and two days' very hard work in the burnt woods, they found that the mountains presented one unbroken wall hemming in the Tobacco Plains.