DCHP-3

island

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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n.

a clump of trees on the prairie, in a meadow, etc.

See: bluff(def. 3a),islet de bois

Quotations

1691
. . . having travelled to day near 30 miles in ye Evening came to a small poplo Island wch standeth out from ye main ridge of woods. . . .
1776
We were in sight of a wood, or island, as the term not unnaturally is[,] as well with the Indians as others.
1888
Islands of timber and fields of prairie, artistically arranged, and so placed that however cultivated your taste, you would not change them if you could.
1962
Bill worked from bunch to bunch near one of the islands of timber in the middle of the meadow.