faire une coupe, to thin (of trees

184. baliveau is a young tree reserved at the time of the thinning out of a wood, and left standing to grow for timber. Dérivation uncertain, but it is an old word, and appears in old French forest laws.

192. bourrée, a small fagot. Littré says the distinction between the two, ' c'est que le fagot a toujours trois ou quatre brins de bois plus gros que les autres, tandis que la bourrée est

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exclusivement formée de menus branchages.' There is a French proverb, * Fagot cherche bourrée. ' ( Birds of a feather, ' etc. 196. qui valait, which was as good as.