timber limit

British  

noun

1. the area to which rights of cutting timber, granted by government licence, are limited

2. another term for timberline

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Example Sentences

"We want to get as far north as the timber limit, if we can," he said.

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In the fall some lumber was required for buildings and it so happened that along came an old chap with a proposition to put in a portable sawmill on a timber limit up in the Riding Mountains nearby.

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The timber limit which the Grain Growers' Grain Company purchased was estimated to contain two hundred and twenty-two million feet of lumber.

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For this Purpose they got together a concern called "The Canadian Society of Equity, Limited," and bought a timber limit, so called.

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We drew back very cautiously into a ravine about a quarter of a mile down the mountain side, to a place where we had noticed some dry wood, for we were not quite above the timber limit.

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