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n. — Obs.
in clearing land, a planned procedure for felling trees for burning (def. 1) in such a way that as many as possible fall near or across each other so that an efficient burn results.
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1852
Could he have found an opening through the burning heaps, we could not have seen our way through the dense canopy of smoke.