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burnt woods

• an area that has been burnt out by a forest fire, characterized by charred stumps and rampikes.

  See also: rampike  brulé (def. 1)  

  • 1754  (1907)  Level lands and burnt woods; and there are nothing but stagnated water to drink.
  • 1888  (1890)  The trail was very bad, and part of the way led through burnt woods.
  • 1963  After desperate climbing and two days' very hard work in the burnt woods, they found that the mountains presented one unbroken wall hemming in the Tobacco Plains.