timber limit
Britishnoun
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the area to which rights of cutting timber, granted by government licence, are limited
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another term for timberline
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A little later, as Crossman rose to replenish the dwindling fire, he saw him, followed by Aurore, enter the northern end of the timber limit.
From O. Henry Memorial Award Prize Stories of 1921 by Edison Marshall
"I went up to Toba Inlet awhile ago and had a look over that timber limit of mine," he began abruptly.
From The Hidden Places by Bertrand W. Sinclair
For this Purpose they got together a concern called "The Canadian Society of Equity, Limited," and bought a timber limit, so called.
From Deep Furrows by Hopkins Moorhouse
"We want to get as far north as the timber limit, if we can," he said.
From Blake's Burden by Harold Bindloss
There was growing an appreciable hole in the heart of his timber limit.
From The Hidden Places by Bertrand W. Sinclair
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