woodlot

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a limited area of woodland, often privately managed as a source of firewood, posts, or timber

   The farmer left the mature oaks standing in the woodlot.

From wood + lot, with lot in the sense 'a parcel of land.' The closed compound is recorded from the seventeenth century and is especially common in North American forestry and farming for a small tract maintained for wood or timber.

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