Meanings of burned-over in English

Somebody was hunting through there for coon, and saw the burned-over place.

Nobody seemed to have returned to the burned-over space since the ship's departure.

A circle of burned-over grass and rubbish surrounded each fire.

Then he came out of the green timber into the edge of a burned-over country.

If we can't count on being found right away, this burned-over place will be green again.

The burned-over area was now only ashes.

Straggling bits of forest-yellowpines, the driver called the trees-began to encroach upon the burned-over and arid barren land.

And Carley soon became aware that they had at last left the cut and burned-over district of timberland behind.

Jack gripped Richard's thin legs and walked down past the burned-over area where so many houses had once stood.

Not a frequent or prolific seed bearer, it still insists on a moist loose seed-bed and prefers the natural forest floor to burned-over land.

Federal funds should be increased so that the Forest Service can undertake on a large scale the replanting of burned-over lands in the National Forests.