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Slash and burn — consists of cutting and burning of forests or woodlands to create fields for agriculture or pasture for livestock, or for a variety of other purposes. It is sometimes part of shifting cultivation agriculture, and of transhumance livestock herding … Wikipedia
Forest Finns — (Norwegian: Skogfinner , Swedish: Skogsfinnar , Finnish: Metsäsuomalaiset ) are people of Finnish descent in the forest areas of Eastern Norway and Central Sweden. The Forest Finns immigrated from Savonia in Eastern Finland during the late 16th… … Wikipedia
Slash (logging) — Slash, or slashings, is a forestry term that refers to coarse and fine woody debris generated during logging operations or through wind, snow or other natural forest disturbances. [ [http://forestry.about.com/library/glossary/blforgsx.htm… … Wikipedia
slash — slash1 [slash] vt. [ME slaschen < ? OFr esclachier, to break, prob. < es (< L ex ), intens. + Gmc * klakjan, to crack, of echoic orig.] 1. to cut or wound with a sweeping stroke or strokes, as of a knife 2. to whip viciously; lash;… … English World dictionary
Slash — Slash, n. 1. A long cut; a cut made at random. [1913 Webster] 2. A large slit in the material of any garment, made to show the lining through the openings. [1913 Webster] 3. [Cf. {Slashy}.] pl. Swampy or wet lands overgrown with bushes. [Local, U … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
slash-and-burn — /slash euhn berrn /, adj. of a method of agriculture used in the tropics, in which forest vegetation is felled and burned, the land is cropped for a few years, then the forest is allowed to reinvade. [1935 40] * * * … Universalium
slash-and-burn — [slash′ən bʉrn′] adj. 1. of or having to do with a type of primitive forest agriculture in which fields are cleared by cutting down and burning vegetation 2. extremely destructive in an indiscriminate way … English World dictionary
slash-and-burn — slash′ and burn′ adj. 1) agr. of or noting a method of agriculture in the tropics in which vegetation is felled and burned, the land is cultivated for a few years, then abandoned to the forest 2) cvb unnecessarily destructive or extreme •… … From formal English to slang
Slash-and-burn — This article is about slash and burn farming. For shifting cultivation, see shifting cultivation. For the Manic Street Preachers single, see Slash n Burn. Not to be confused with scorched earth. Slash and burn practices in Eno, Finland, 1893 … Wikipedia
slash — {{11}}slash (n.) a cutting stroke with a weapon, 1570s, from SLASH (Cf. slash) (v.); sense of slit in a garment is from 1610s; that of open tract in a forest is first attested 1825, Amer.Eng. As a punctuation mark in writing or printing, it is… … Etymology dictionary
