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lime-heap
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n.
a great heap of logs surmounted by a frame holding broken pieces of limestone which were rendered into lime when the logs were set on fire, a by-product of the burn (def. 1) in land clearing.
See: burn ((n.))(def. 1)
Quotations
1853
My first step towards it was to build a lime-heap.