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lodgepole

lodgepole

See also: lodge pole

English

Noun

lodgepole (plural lodgepoles)

  1. A lodgepole pine or its wood.
    • 1995, Nancy Langston, Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West‎, page 27:
      Although individual lodgepoles got killed almost instantly by fires, those same fires set the stage for more lodgepole stands
    • 2002, Douglas H. Chadwick, A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed‎, page 95:
      Here stood an eight-by-ten-foot canvas tent stretched over a lodgepole frame ...Around the stove were a lodgepole table, a lodgepole bed