lodgepole

noun

lodgepole

noun

Etymology From lodge + pole.

1

A lodgepole pine or its wood.

  • Although individual lodgepoles got killed almost instantly by fires, those same fires set the stage for more lodgepole stands1995, Nancy Langston, Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West, page 27:
  • Here stood an eight-by-ten-foot canvas tent stretched over a lodgepole frame ...Around the stove were a lodgepole table, a lodgepole bed2002, Douglas H. Chadwick, A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed, page 95:

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