beech-mast

Higher still, the beechwood floor is blue with jonquils, and tobacco-brown with leaves and beech-mast husks.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Higher still, the beechwood floor is blue with jonquils, and tobacco-brown with leaves and beech-mast husks.

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Ohio, and on the beech-mast and acorns of its gigantic forests.

The Englishwoman in America 2007

They went slipping over the dry beech-mast to the boathouse.

Red Pottage 2004

They were so pretty — but they crept like swift, erratic mice, running here and there among the beech-mast.

The Prussian Officer and Other Stories 2003

Sometimes the path emerged for a short way into more open upland where the trees thinned and clearings of heath appeared, for all this stretch of country was the northern fringe of the Long Forest, where men had encroached with their little assarts and their legal or illegal cutting of timber and pasturing of pigs on acorns and beech-mast.

The Rose Rent Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1986

Peredur looked up at the sound of other feet rustling the beech-mast, and rose as if he would have removed further to avoid speech, but then gave up the thought, and stood mute and unwelcoming, but resigned.

A Morbid Taste For Bones Peters, Ellis, 1913-1995 1977

Many had also the right of acorns and beech-mast for their pigs (_droit au gland et à la faîne_).

Brittany & Its Byways Fanny Bury Palliser

The fruit has a dark brown tough rind enclosing the kernel or seed, and is three-sided in form, with sharp angles, similar in shape to beech-mast, whence the name from the

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3 "Brescia" to "Bulgaria" Various

Herds of oxen, and flocks of sheep and goats, roved on the broad upland pastures, and in the forest multitudes of swine were fattening on the beech-mast and acorns.

Stories from the Odyssey