pine barrens

Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

A term applied to level, sandy tracts, covered with pine-trees, in the Southern.States.--Worcester.


The road which I had to travel, lay through a dreary and extensive forest of pine trees, or, as it is termed by the Carolinians, a pine-barren, where t habitation is seldom seen, except at intervals of ten or twelve miles.--Lambert's Trarels, Vol. II. p. 226.

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