timberline
IPA: tˈɪmbɝɫaɪn
noun
- The height or limit beyond which trees do not grow in mountainous or Arctic regions.
timber line
IPA: tˈɪmbɝɫˈaɪn
noun
- Alternative spelling of timberline [The height or limit beyond which trees do not grow in mountainous or Arctic regions.]
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Examples of "timberline" in Sentences
Examples of "timber-line" in Sentences
- The zero line indicates the position of the recent polar timber-line.
- Above timber-line, fireless, for two days, he struggled blindly to find lower levels.
- It was a 'cold' camp, far above the timber-line, and he had not burdened his sled with firewood.
- But above the glacier, which was also above timber-line, was naught but a chaos of naked rock and enormous boulders.
- Also, it was eighty miles to Haines Mission, and the great Chilcoot, far above the timber-line, reared his storm-swept head between.
- At Sheep Camp, the Scales, across Chilcoot, above timber-line in the first swirl of autumn snow, Father Christmas sang his quatrain.
- Over the ice-scoured rocks, and above the timber-line, the trail ran around Crater Lake and gained the rocky defile that led toward Happy
- There were chamois up in that country too and black cock in the woods below the timber-line and big hares that you found sometimes at night when we were coming home along the road.
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