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词汇 sucker-bash
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Definition of sucker-bash in English:

sucker-bash

verb
[with object]Australian
  • Cut down unwanted new growth on an area of cleared land.

    45 acres were sucker-bashed
    Example sentencesExamples
    • Hand labor would also be utilized to remove small-diameter eucalyptus trees and to sucker bash sprouts that grow after initial thinning activities.
    • Victor would walk with an axe over his shoulder, just in case he came across a tree that needed sucker bashing or ring barking.
    • The trees were ringbarked but not sucker-bashed, with the result that the suckers have grown into large separate trunks.
    • In the Australian pioneering tradition, extensive areas of poplar box have been ring-barked or sucker-bashed to enhance grass growth.
    • The continual pulse of young seedlings contributes to a recurring need to "sucker bash" the area.

Derivatives

  • sucker-bashing

  • noun
    Australian

Origin

Early 20th century: from sucker in the sense 'a new shoot growing on a plant' + bash.

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