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burnt-out area
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1
an area that has been burnt out by a forest fire, characterized by charred stumps and rampikes.
Quotations
1959
[...] the man of the house spends days in the bush [...] following bear tracks into les brules (burnt-out areas) where blueberries grow thickest.
1964
The next day, the hunters . . . reached a ridge in a burnt-out area. . . .
2
soil damaged by erosion.
Quotations
1952
The agricultural value of these soils is limited by wind erosion of the surface soil with the formation of numerous "burnt-out" areas.