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park 
1 n. Obs. a fenced enclosure into which animals, especially buffalo, were driven to be slaughtered; a pound.
- Meanings 1, 2, and perhaps 3 are derived from French parc through the French Canadians (coureurs de bois and voyageurs), who were the first to see these topographical features of the western prairies and mountains.
2 See hole 1961 quote
See also: hole (def. 1)
3 n. the lightly wooded, grassy belt of rich land lying between the open prairie and the northern forests in the three Prairie Provinces; also, similar but smaller areas of lightly wooded rolling grasslands, as the Peace River country.