DCHP-1 Online
burnt-out area 
1 an area that has been burnt out by a forest fire, characterized by charred stumps and rampikes.
See also: rampike brulé (def. 1)
- 1959 . . . the man of the house spends days in the bush . . . following bear tracks into les brules (burnt-out areas) where blueberries grow thickest.
- 1964 The next day, the hunters . . . reached a ridge in a burnt-out area. . . .
2 soil damaged by erosion.
- 1952 The agricultural value of these soils is limited by wind erosion of the surface soil with the formation of numerous "burnt-out" areas.
- 1959 . . . the man of the house spends days in the bush . . . following bear tracks into les brules (burnt-out areas) where blueberries grow thickest.