deadfall
Example Sentences
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The device’s clever design and battery-powered fans also allow it to emit less smoke than your standard fire pit, regardless of whether you’re burning charcoal or deadfall.
From The Verge ● Nov. 8, 2021
That means using handsaws to clear deadfall from trails, block-and-tackle pulley rigs to lift bridge timbers and spud bars to pry rocks out of trail treads.
From Washington Times ● Aug. 19, 2017
Looking up from the sidewalk, I was always conscious of this stark deadfall.
From The New Yorker ● Dec. 29, 2014
The Woodland Trust said deadfall washed out by rivers from Urquhart Bay Wood could explain a recent report of something emerging from the loch.
From BBC ● Nov. 20, 2014
I had always considered this a kind of semantic deadfall, but moving about in my own country I am not at all sure that is so.
From "Travels with Charley in Search of America" by John Steinbeck
