à blanc estoc
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[edit]- (forestry) almost to the level of the stump; without leaving any saplings
- 1856, Paul Fabre, Annales forestières et métallurgiques[1], page 142:
- ...qui a « commencé et continue » à faire couper sa part des bois de haulte-fustaye chesnes en la seigneurie dudit Meilburg, les mectant à blanc estoc et en changeant entièrement la nature, ce qui n’est pas permis au vassal sans le gré du seigneur.
- ...who has "begun & continues" to cut down his part of the haulte-fustaye [?] oaks on the estate of the said Meilburg, cutting them to stumps & changing entirely the surrounding nature, which is not permitted to the vassal without the will of the lord.