DCHP-3

swamp elm

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a common species of elm, Ulmus americana, found from central Saskatchewan to the Maritimes; white elm.

Quotations

1830
It is known in market by the name of Swamp Elm.
1916
He was a timberjack in the hardwood bush of western Ontario, about to notch a five-foot swamp elm which he and his mate would afterwards bring down with a crosscut saw.
1956
White Elm [is also called] swamp elm. . . .