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spring-burn
Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
in clearing land, the occasion in spring for burning trees felled during winter.
Quotations
1845
. . . the first dry "spell" is looked forward to most anxiously to burn off the land which has been chopped during the winter. It is bad policy, however, to depend for the whole crop on this "spring burn" as a long continuance of wet weather may prevent it.
1853
. . . the dry weather enabled me to get a spring-burn of five acres. . . .
1863
The garden stuff planted on Robert's spring-burn ground had flourished. . . .