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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a tall, dead tree, especially one that is blackened and branchless from being caught in a forest fire.
See: rampike
Quotations
1853
It [the osprey's nest] can be seen when the woods are open . . . and the more easily, as the tree upon which it is built is always a "dead wood," and therefore without leaves to conceal it.