Definition of Cutover

1. Adjective. Having been cleared of valuable timber. ¹

2. Noun. An area of cutover land. ¹

3. Noun. The discontinuity that occurs when switching from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Cutover

1. land cleared of trees [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Cutover

cutleaved coneflower
cutler
cutleries
cutlers
cutlery
cutlet
cutlets
cutline
cutlines
cutling
cutoff
cutoffs
cutose
cutout
cutouts
cutover (current term)
cutovers
cutpoint
cutpoints
cutproof
cutpurse
cutpurses
cutround
cutrounds
cuts bait
cuts down
cuts in
cuts it
cuts off

Literary usage of Cutover

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Lumber Manufacturing Accounts by Arthur Francis Jones (1914)
"cutover Lands The land underlying the timber is not usually considered as being of any actual value from an operating standpoint, and the purchase price is ..."

2. Automatic Telephony: A Comprehensive Treatise on Automatic and Semi by Arthur Bessey Smith, Wilson Lee Campbell (1914)
"A quick and satisfactory cutover may be made under these conditions, however, just as when the change is made to one automatic central office only. ..."

3. Transactions of the Commonwealth Club of California by Commonwealth Club of California (1903)
"21—"Reforestation of Idle cutover Lands from Viewpoint of Private* Industry," by John H. Gray, Vice President in charge of operations, Union Lumber Company, ..."

4. Journal of the Washington Academy of Sciences by Washington Academy of Sciences (1915)
"Splendid young growth, however, is found here and there on cutover land, away from any seed trees, where the leaf litter is not completely burned. ..."

5. Southern Appalachians: History of the Landscape by Susan Yarnell (1999)
"Large corporations favored a reserve; the government's purchase of cutover lands would relieve them of tax responsibility for the property and promote ..."

6. A History of Russian Forestry and Its Leaders by Viktor Konstantinovich Tepli︠a︡kov (1998)
"The Nature of the Taiga Forests and cutover Area. 1962. In: Proc. ... The Connection Between Forest Type and the Type of cutover. 1959. Botanical Journal. ..."

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