lodgepole

lodgepole

See also: lodge pole

English

Etymology

lodge +‎ pole

Noun

lodgepole (plural lodgepoles)

1. A lodgepole pine or its wood.
   • 1995, Nancy Langston, Forest Dreams, Forest Nightmares: The Paradox of Old Growth in the Inland West‎, page 27:

     Although individual lodgepoles got killed almost instantly by fires, those same fires set the stage for more lodgepole stands

   • 2002, Douglas H. Chadwick, A Beast the Color of Winter: The Mountain Goat Observed‎, page 95:

     Here stood an eight-by-ten-foot canvas tent stretched over a lodgepole frame ...Around the stove were a lodgepole table, a lodgepole bed