DCHP-3

jackpine†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n.

one of several varieties of pine, especially the Banksian pine.

Quotations

1897
Finding an inviting camping-ground in the open jack-pine wood, we went ashore.
1904
. . . they camped . . . in a little sheltered dell all thick with jack pines. . . .
1966
. . . this little press had once been taken apart and packed on the backs of men through 40 miles of gumbo and jack pine. . . .
2n.

the wood of any of these trees.

Quotations

1955
Development of techniques which make it possible to use jackpine, red and Scottish pine in making newsprint--once almost wholly a spruce and balsam product.
1962
And I skidded rails, gathering them in bundles where the men had split them into fifteen foot lengths of jack pine. . . .