Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The elevation above the sea-level at which timber ceases to grow. It differs in different climates.
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Examples
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But above the glacier, which was also above timber-line, was naught but a chaos of naked rock and enormous boulders.
Trust 2010
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Over the ice-scoured rocks, and above the timber-line, the trail ran around Crater Lake and gained the rocky defile that led toward Happy
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Also, it was eighty miles to Haines Mission, and the great Chilcoot, far above the timber-line, reared his storm-swept head between.
GRIT OF WOMEN 2010
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It was a 'cold' camp, far above the timber-line, and he had not burdened his sled with firewood.
Chapter V 2010
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Above timber-line, fireless, for two days, he struggled blindly to find lower levels.
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At Sheep Camp, the Scales, across Chilcoot, above timber-line in the first swirl of autumn snow, Father Christmas sang his quatrain.
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The zero line indicates the position of the recent polar timber-line.
The Proxies of Osborn and Briffa [2006] « Climate Audit 2006
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The zero line indicates the position of the recent polar timber-line.
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There were chamois up in that country too and black cock in the woods below the timber-line and big hares that you found sometimes at night when we were coming home along the road.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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There were chamois up in that country too and black cock in the woods below the timber-line and big hares that you found sometimes at night when we were coming home along the road.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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