Lexicographical Neighbors of Beechmast
Literary usage of Beechmast
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Quarterly Journal of Forestry by Royal English Arboricultural Society, Royal Forestry Society of England, Wales and Northern Ireland (1908)
"... eighty years is to be looked upon for a fall of beechmast. This experience
should emphasise the fact that thinning is the great factor in regeneration. ..."
2. The New Forest: Its Traditions, Inhabitants and Customs by Mrs Rose Key Champion de Crespigny, Philip Champion de Crespigny, Horace Gordon Hutchinson (1903)
"They roam at large through the woods all the day long, seeking acorns and beechmast,
but each evening, when the curfew should be tolling the " knell of ..."
3. Practical Game Preserving: Containing the Fullest Directions for Rearing and by William Carnegie (1884)
"As autumn advances their diet is changed to acorns, beechmast, and still unripe
hazel nuts, ... As to beechmast, their craving for these nuts is remarkable, ..."
4. Report by British Association for the Advancement of Science (1878)
"bacon " and " beech " were allied ; and a bacon-fed pig was a pig that had been
fed upon beechmast. " Bacon " meant " beech," the article out of which bacon ..."
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