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lodgepole

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See also: lodge pole

English

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Etymology

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From lodge +‎ pole.

Noun

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lodgepole (countable and uncountable, plural lodgepoles)

  1. A lodgepole pine or its wood.
    • 1995, Nancy Langston, Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West, page 27:
      Although individual lodgepoles got killed almost instantly by fires, those same fires set the stage for more lodgepole stands
    • 2002, Douglas H. Chadwick, A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed, page 95:
      Here stood an eight-by-ten-foot canvas tent stretched over a lodgepole frame ...Around the stove were a lodgepole table, a lodgepole bed