timber line

See also: timberline

English

Noun

timber line (plural timber lines)

  1. Alternative spelling of timberline.
    • 1957 August, H. A. Vallance, “By Rail to the Norwegian Arctic”, in Railway Magazine, page 574:
      The surroundings become bleak in the extreme as the timber line is approached and trees give place to thinly scattered birches that are little more than bushes.
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