DCHP-3

park

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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1n. — Obs.

a fenced enclosure into which animals, especially buffalo, were driven to be slaughtered; a pound.

Meanings 1, 2, and perhaps 3 are derived from French parc through the French Canadians (coureurs de bois and voyageurs), who were the first to see these topographical features of the western prairies and mountains.

Quotations

1797
A good runner frequently goes before the band with the hair of his robe outwards and half bent, sous to represent a buffalo and, by that means, decoys them into the park which has a small door to make him a passage out.
1804
In order to kill them [buffalo], the Natives in large bands . . . drive them into parks and kill them at their leisure.
2

See hole 1961 quote

See: hole(def. 1)

Quotations

1900
When the young Spruce are growing, and would choke up the park, we strip the bark off and they die, and the open is still with us.
1954
The place was what the old mountain men used to call a hole or a park--it was a little country of its own.
3n.

the lightly wooded, grassy belt of rich land lying between the open prairie and the northern forests in the three Prairie Provinces; also, similar but smaller areas of lightly wooded rolling grasslands, as the Peace River country.

See: parkland(s)(def. 1)

Quotations

1905
Then came park country, rich green pasturage and dark forest belts, with a winding coal-black stream-bed meandering in the most abandoned manner through it all.
1952
The climate is drier and the vegetation grades from park to treeless steppe.
4n.

a national park or a provincial park.

Quotations

1905
The Rocky Mountain Park stretches from the great wall that overhangs the foothills to the Divide, where it is joined by the almost equally extensive Yoho Park Reserve embracing a vast tract on the Pacific slope.
1940
The Canadian Government, full conscious of the value of this alpine wilderness as a national asset, has . . . set aside for recreational purposes and for preservation for future generations, seven large park areas embracing 8,720 square miles of the most easily accessible and picturesque parts of the Rockies and Selkirks.