DCHP-3

dry-kill timber †

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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Quotations

1947
That is what they call dry-ki, a shortening of "dry-kill timber"--trees killed by fire, but still standing. Dry-ki has also come to mean timber killed by the backwater when they raise the level of the lakes for lumbering.