cut-over†

Lumbering

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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adj.

cleared of timber; logged.

Quotations

1928

. . . he could reforest the sandy wastes, the burned-over, cut-over bush which he had picked up with timbered acreage. . . .

1961

"I am not asking for good land," says Mr. Bancroft, "any old waste or cut over timber lands would do."