half-cut

Updated: May 8, 2025

Our road ascended gradually through half-cut woods of red pine, for two or three miles, after which it entered a long valley, or rather basin, belonging to the table land of the Dovre Fjeld. Stunted heath and dwarfed juniper-bushes mixed with a grey, foxy shrub-willow, covered the soil, and the pale yellow of the reindeer moss stained the rocks.

Bayard Taylor - Northern Travel: Summer and Winter Pictures of Sweden, Denmark and Lapland

In the half-cut hay-fields the machines stood at rest; rarely, an interlaced couple could be dimly seen for a moment on some distant footpath of the park; sometimes a partridge called or a jay screamed; otherwise a Sabbath stillness as it seemed to Marcia, a Sabbath dreariness held the scene. Newbury put up his arms, drew her down to him, and kissed her passionately.

Mrs. Humphry Ward - The Coryston Family: A Novel