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timber limit Lumbering

• 1a n. a tract of forested land the bounds of which have been established by the government, which leases or sells the rights to fell and remove timber.

  See also: berth (def. 1)  coal limit  limit  lumber claim  timber berth  timber claim  timber concession  

  • 1854  No timber limits are without water--for it is by water alone that the timber can reach its market, and wherever there is or has been water, there you are sure to find Beaver meadows.
  • 1896  Now a timber limit is a fortune without touching it with your hand.
  • 1961  The practice of the government was to grant "timber limits" or "berths" to lumbermen by yearly licences or leases for a longer period.

• 1b n. a tract of forested land suitable for commercial lumbering; a stand of timber.

  • 1890  A Journal of this city is greatly agitated lest, by disputing our timber limits and other assets, the Ontario Government shall bring the province to direct taxation.
  • 1909  . . . he imparted full and valuable information in regard to Wakota, its possibilities as a business centre, its railroad prospects, its land values, its timber limits. . . .
  • 1960  . . . A Blackfoot Indian band in 1892 surrendered a timber limit in Alberta.

• 2 n. on a mountain, the line beyond which trees do not grow.

  See also: timber line (def. 1)  timberline   

  • 1898  The whole valley and slopes to the timber limit are clothed with cotton-wood, spruce and alder trees.
  • 1905  Soon I found myself alone, passing through the sparse, stunted trees that verge the timber-limit, and approaching a wide, verdant upland.

• 3 n. the line north of which trees do not grow; the line where the Barrens begin.

  See also: timber line (def. 2)  timberline   

  • 1914  We want to get as far north as the timber limit. . . .
  • 1936  The timber limit is the boundary line between the Indian and the Eskimo.