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first timber North

• the line north of which trees do not grow; the line where the Barrens begin.

  See also: timber line (def. 2)  

  • 1867  (1913)  We made the first woods early and had tea and something to eat. . . .
  • 1916  (1936)  Thawed out, Beyts put his comments on paper explaining that because of the exhaustion of the dogs and because "none of the natives, so far, will go beyond the first timber," he no longer thought it possible to reach Bathurst Inlet that winter.