Wiktionary
n. (alternative spelling of timberline English)
WordNet
n. line marking the upper limit of tree growth in mountains or northern latitudes [syn: timberline, tree line]
Usage examples of "timber line".
He had seen them destroy a thousand-year-old timber line in half a day.
In connection with this it might be of interest to note here the fact that the timber line ended at an elevation of two hundred and seventy-five feet above the lake.
His father picked him up and carried him down below timber line, and doing that he run himself to death, got pneumonia, and that night, getting delirious, he walked over the edge of the river and was drowned.
They went across divides in summer blizzards, shivered under the midnight sun on naked mountains between the timber line and the eternal snows, dropped into summer valleys amid swarming gnats and flies, and in the shadows of glaciers picked strawberries and flowers as ripe and fair as any the Southland could boast.
He had also carried back some dead wood and twigs, so he must have been down below timber line.
About the middle of the afternoon we crossed a low, rocky ridge, above timber line, and saw at our feet a basin or round valley of singular beauty.
Far down the mountain, emerging from the timber line he saw a group of riders.
Beyond the timber line, the rocky slopes towered up to snow-capped peaks.
A line of women came into sight, moving up the hillside towards the timber line.
They are bringing food to the loggers working beyond the timber line, he said.