timber line
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Definition(s):
- (n) line marking the upper limit of tree growth in mountains or northern latitudes
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- Pedaling furiously as the road twisted above the timber line, Bobet broke away from the pack.
- This struggle made the biggest battlefront in World War IIeverywhere over the earth between sea level and timber line, wherever things grow and men eat.
- Up above California's timber line there is just enough brush to shade the water and yet not enough to tangle a backcast.
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