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+<br>The Oxford dictionary says a layman is a ‘non-skilled, non-expert’ with no have to stay up to standards. 1. My experience with useless standing bushes began no less than 80 years ago, climbing them as a boy. Duncan prefers to name managed useless standing timber snags and dislikes the term monoliths. However, Philip Wilson in ‘my bible’, The A-Z of Tree Terms, defines snags as stubs, and non-arboricultural and non-forestry dictionaries have included a number of other meanings for the phrase, even ‘debris snagged up in flowing water’ and ‘clothing torn or snagged up on thorns or barbed wire and so on.’ Therefore, whilst I agree our widespread language is full of phrases which have a number of typically completely totally different meanings, certainly here's a case the place in tree phrases - and nearly confined to arboricultural use - a lifeless standing tree may very well be described using a much better time period than snag. Philip Wilson’s A-Z defines a monolith as ‘a tree decreased to its foremost stem’ and in his definition it might nonetheless be alive.<br>
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+<br>English dictionaries outline a monolith as ‘a single block of stone, particularly formed like a pillar or monument, a large block of concrete or factor like a monolith being large, immoveable or stable uniform.’ Mono clearly means single and lith is stone. Surely all we must do is discover a easy descriptive term that may solely confer with a managed useless standing tree? Let’s hope the ideas that comply with inspire some thoughts from arbs. This form of tree management belongs to the arb world and the arb world should claim skilled possession by discovering the fitting term for it. As lith means stone, why not name a useless standing tree a mono-stub or mono-stump? Mono-trunk or  [Wood Ranger Power Shears reviews](https://curepedia.net/wiki/User:ByronKillough29) mono-candle (French is chandele) are additionally options. Mike Ellison has prompt mono-ligna, mono-lignum, mono-lig or mono-stack. 2. Oak root plate with what remained of the supporting root system after the tree had been standing lifeless for maybe a number of a long time.<br>
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+<br>3. William the Conqueror’s Oak at Windsor, perhaps 1000 years previous. How on earth are you able to name this a part of our nation’s history a snag? 4. Ancient lifeless elm monolith. My wager is the occupants of the house who decided to go away this tree standing have been very attention-grabbing people, considering the safety paranoia and mindless obsession with tidiness that prevail in the 21st century. Bring on the youthful generations! 5. Dead standing oaks the place Roy Finch did plunge cuts in limbs and Bill Cathcart’s workforce at Windsor then winched the limbs off to leave monoliths with fairly natural-trying broken stub ends. My experience with dead standing trees started at least eighty years in the past when i climbed into the dead hollow standing oak in picture 1 and collected either a barn or a tawny owl’s egg. In those days, all small boys residing in the countryside collected birds’ eggs. The tree is still there as we speak, and obviously the encircling trees are actually of a considerable measurement and presumably increasingly provide it some safety.<br>
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