withthrow

English

Noun

withthrow (countable and uncountable, plural withthrows)

  1. Alternative form of windthrow

Verb

withthrow (third-person singular simple present withthrows, present participle withthrowing, simple past withthrew, past participle withthrown)

  1. Alternative form of windthrow ("to overturn or uproot by the wind").
    • 1920, Journal of Forestry:
      On this plot, which suffered in its first year from the severe storm of September 18, 1914, 75 trees have been lost to date : 61 windfalls, 11 insect-killed, 2 fungi-weakened and withthrown, and 1 lightning-killed.
    • 1921, Idaho Forester, (Please provide the book title or journal name):
      In January, 1921, the most disastrous windfall experience of the region was felt in the Olympic Peninsula where altogether over 6 billion feet of timber were withthrown.
    • 1928, Proceedings of the Annual Meeting:
      [...] logging (including slash damage) occurs in the 2 foot to 5 foot height classes, which are the very ones which are large enough to maintain themselves against hardwood sprouts, and arc too short to be withthrown.

Anagrams

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.