DCHP-1 Online

fire-barren Maritimes

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

  See also: rampike  brulé (def. 1)  

  • 1956  . . . there were patches of old fire-barren that had come up with a pure stand of young poplar or of wire birch. . . .