DCHP-2
oak opening † DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a relatively open tract of light, sandy soil supporting only a few oak trees in contrast to heavily wooded surroundings.
See also: oak plain opening plain(s) (def. 2)
- 1852 (1881) The black squirrel, for a succession of years, was very rarely to be met with on the plains, while there were plenty of the red and grey in the "oak openings."
- 1939 The general results of the foregoing would seem at first sight to point to the " groves," "open woods," "oak openings," parklands, or whatever name one may give them, being more pronounced on the western borders of this huge territory than on the Atlantic slope.
- 1852 (1881) The black squirrel, for a succession of years, was very rarely to be met with on the plains, while there were plenty of the red and grey in the "oak openings."