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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n. pl.

forest that has not been affected by fires, as opposed to burnt woods.

See: burnt woods

Quotations

1849

They first took us 5 miles by a lumber-road through the burnt woods. After which we steered North East by compass through "greenwoods," on very good land.

1872

We took up our quarters in a double bark camp situated in some "green" woods, a quarter of a mile from a large barren.

1933

In the greenwoods, far from lakes and brooks, marten traps replaced mink traps.