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jackpine † 

• 1 n. one of several varieties of pine, especially the Banksian pine.

  See also: Banksian pine  

  • 1897  Finding an inviting camping-ground in the open jack-pine wood, we went ashore.
  • 1904  . . . they camped . . . in a little sheltered dell all thick with jack pines. . . .
  • 1966  . . . this little press had once been taken apart and packed on the backs of men through 40 miles of gumbo and jack pine. . . .

• 2 n. the wood of any of these trees.

  • 1955  Development of techniques which make it possible to use jackpine, red and Scottish pine in making newsprint--once almost wholly a spruce and balsam product.
  • 1962  And I skidded rails, gathering them in bundles where the men had split them into fifteen foot lengths of jack pine. . . .