DCHP-2

Weymouth pine [after Thomas Thynne (d.1714), 1st Viscount of Weymouth] DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

• a tall, stately pine, Pinus strobus, of eastern Canada, much used for shipmasts in colonial days and providing the basis for the lumber industry.

  See also: white pine (def. 1a)  

  • 1770  (1792)  The arrows are made from Weymouth pine; they are slender, light, perfectly straight, and about three feet long.
  • 1832  The white, yellow, or Weymouth pine, is the monarch of our forest, growing to the height of 130 feet. . . .
  • 1956  Eastern white pine [is also called] white pine, Weymouth pine. . . .