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white pine†
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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1a
a tall, stately pine, Pinus strobus, of eastern Canada, much used for shipmasts in colonial days and providing the basis for the lumber industry.
Quotations
1767
They are hereby forbid to cut down . . . White Pine . . . on the lands above described.
1853
Generally speaking, the white or American pine, from its vast length of trunk, contains a larger number of cubic feet than any other tree in the Canadian forest.
1966
But the white pine, tallest and stateliest of all the trees in Ontario, was held the most worthy of worship
1b
the light, soft wood of this tree.
Quotations
1828
Wanted, 500 Cords Hemlock Tamarac, or Dry white Pine Wood.
1947
He would have to make his own [shingles] with a drawknife and some chunks of "corky" white pine. . . .
2
a slim, straight pine, Pinus contorta var. latifolia, common in the Rocky Mountain region, so called because the young trees make good lodgepoles.
See: lodgepole pine
Quotations
1894
Ascending the slope on the west side of the valley we come at once into a belt of the western hemlock and white pine which is characteristic of all the mountains from here to the Coast Range.
1956
Lodgepole Pine [is also called] white pine. . . .
3 — Lumbering
the western white pine, especially with reference to its wood.
See: western white pine
Quotations
1956
Western white pine [is also called] white pine. . . .
1966
SPECIES CUT, ALL PRODUCTS, 1964, CONVERTED TO F.B.M. . . . Totals, Coast . . . White Pine 3, 717, 638.