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timber limit
noun
- the area to which rights of cutting timber, granted by government licence, are limited
- another term for timberline
Example Sentences
"We want to get as far north as the timber limit, if we can," he said.
In the fall some lumber was required for buildings and it so happened that along came an old chap with a proposition to put in a portable sawmill on a timber limit up in the Riding Mountains nearby.
The timber limit which the Grain Growers' Grain Company purchased was estimated to contain two hundred and twenty-two million feet of lumber.
For this Purpose they got together a concern called "The Canadian Society of Equity, Limited," and bought a timber limit, so called.
We drew back very cautiously into a ravine about a quarter of a mile down the mountain side, to a place where we had noticed some dry wood, for we were not quite above the timber limit.
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