Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A lot covered with forest. See forest, 1.

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Examples

  • If you were a farmer, you could still have your sweets, if you made do with honey instead of sugar, and though sugar was rationed for tea, it was, oddly enough, not rationed for jam-making-you could hide a pig in your wood-lot, or raise rabbits openly, since rabbit-meat wasn't in short supply.

    Phoenix And Ashes Lackey, Mercedes 2004

  • An afternoon sufficed to lay out the land into orchard, wood-lot, and pasture, and to decide what fine oaks or pines should be left to stand before the door, and whence each blasted tree could be seen to the best advantage; and then I let it lie, fallow, perchance, for a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone.

    Walden 2004

  • Doughbelly directed us into a wood-lot overlooking the stricken town.

    The Black Company Cook, Glen 1984

  • He wanted a look at the bunch in the wood-lot, and now, while he was so near it, was as good a time as he could find in which to visit that other herd.

    The Heart of Arethusa Francis Barton Fox

  • Beautiful undulating farm lands lead the eye up to the distant hills on either hand, fields of every warm tint with sentinel oaks or walnuts, and here and there the wood-lot of the farmer.

    The New York and Albany Post Road From Kings Bridge to "The Ferry at Crawlier, over against Albany," Being an Account of a Jaunt on Foot Made at Sundry Convenient Times between May and November, Nineteen Hundred and Five Charles Gilbert Hine

  • A wood-lot, besides paying in other ways, will afford nesting places for a large number of birds.

    Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

  • The wood used for fuel or for power usually represents what would otherwise be lost, the dead trees and the unmarketable timber of the farmer's wood-lot, the refuse of lumber regions or the waste of wood-working factories.

    Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

  • But the first falling drops caught him before he was half way to the wood-lot, so he turned around without attempting that visit and started for home.

    The Heart of Arethusa Francis Barton Fox

  • This, then, is the lesson we should learn in regard to our forests: To guard against waste in cutting and use, fire, and insects, and to plant trees until our future supply of timber is assured, till the head-waters of our streams are protected and our waste lands made into valuable forest tracts; till every farm has its wood-lot, and every community its fruit and shade.

    Checking the Waste A Study in Conservation Mary Huston Gregory

  • Charlie did not stay to see any further developments, but pushed for the shore, safely reaching it, and then made his way to the fence, climbing it and gaining the wood-lot.

    The Knights of the White Shield Up-the-Ladder Club Series, Round One Play Edward A. Rand

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