Barrens

Word BARRENS
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Definitions and meanings of "Barrens"

What do we mean by barrens?

An area of low fertility and habitation, a desolate place.

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The word "barrens" in example sentences

It was a kind of land generally known in the West as "barrens" -- rolling upland, with very thin, unproductive soil. ❋ John George Nicolay (1866)

In these parts, the barrens were a mere strip; she could see the ice beyond them. ❋ Anderson, Poul, 1926- (1974)

Then the Air Force, realizing the barrens was a difficult part of the country to operate in and the planes quite largely avoided it before the war, and the distances were very great and as they were using mainly wheeled aircraft they had to drop their supplies, and fly seven hundred miles in and back and the 1,400 miles was quite a long flight. ❋ Unknown (1946)

Extensive "barrens" (i.e. bluestem prairies) were once maintained by fires set by Native Americans on rolling to flat parts of the Interior Plateau (71) and Mississippi Valley Loess Plains (74). ❋ Unknown (2008)

Today, these areas are dominated by cropland and pastureland and the historic "barrens" are nearly extinct. ❋ Unknown (2008)

They would populate them, and the so-called "barrens" would thunder to the innumerable hoofs of reindeer herds as the American plains had never thundered to the beat of cattle. ❋ James Oliver Curwood (1903)

But her experience with this one had not justified that point of view, and the matter largely occupied her thoughts as they walked slowly through the thickets of a bit of "second-growth" beyond the fire, which, stopped by the rocky "barrens," was dying out behind them. ❋ Edward Marshall (1901)

These "barrens" constitute a high rolling plateau of ground between the ranges of hills at Duck ❋ Henry Martyn Cist (1870)

From Duck River, south, the country is rough, with rocky ranges of hills, which divide the "barrens" from the fertile parts of Middle Tennessee. ❋ Henry Martyn Cist (1870)

The Manchester pike passed through Hoover's Gap and reached the "barrens" by ascending a long, difficult cañon called ❋ Henry Martyn Cist (1870)

Situated on the "barrens," at the junction of the McMinnville branch with the Nashville and Chattanooga Railroad, was Tullahoma, ❋ Henry Martyn Cist (1870)

If he were attacked at Shelbyville and beaten, he would then be in good position to retreat to his strong intrenchments at Tullahoma, and on his retreat could so retard Rosecrans's advance through the narrow winding roads leading up to the "barrens," as to fully protect his own line of retreat and inflict severe loss on the advancing force without exposing his own troops. ❋ Henry Martyn Cist (1870)

On the open "barrens," where a few tufts of stunted brushwood are alone found, the remarkable pinnated grouse may be seen in great numbers running over the ground. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

The ground we select is among the "barrens" before described. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

Visiting one of these "barrens," we may perchance fall in with several of the noble-looking animals known in Europe and Asia as the reindeer, though we must look sharp to recognise them; for so similar are they in colour to the rocks and general features of the ground, that only the keen eye of the Indian can easily detect them, especially when they are lying down. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

As the winter approaches, the cows, with the young bulls and calves, congregate in small parties on the open "barrens" and hill-sides. ❋ William Henry Giles Kingston (1847)

The term "barrens" is now applied extensively in the West to the same description of country. ❋ John Mason Peck (1823)

Many of the prairies in Ohio are low and wet; -- some are elevated and dry, and exhibit the features of those tracts called "barrens" in Illinois. ❋ John Mason Peck (1823)

"barrens" north of the turnpike, and Ruger should follow me some distance, and then take an intermediate road through Laurel-Hill ❋ Jacob Dolson Cox (1864)

So the sun was an hour high and the day was already uncomfortably hot when we rolled out of Nephi and on into the sandy barrens. ❋ Unknown (2010)

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