fire-barren

Maritimes

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

1956

. . . there were patches of old fire-barren that had come up with a pure stand of young poplar or of wire birch. . . .