root-holes

Updated: June 21, 2025

Then came a fringe of scrub growth woven into an almost impenetrable tangle oaks, poplars, willows, cedar, tamarack and through it all an abattis of old slashing with its rotting, fallen stumps, its network of tops, its soggy root-holes, its fallen, uprooted trees. Along one of these strutted a partridge.

Stewart Edward White - The Rules of the Game