Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act or process of improving land, as defined under denshire. Also called
burn-beating (which see).
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Examples
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Austronesian culture, the people of which also lived in the mountains, some as collectors and hunters, some going over to a simple type of agriculture (denshiring).
A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949
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The best analysis of denshiring in the Far East is still the book by K.J. Pelzer,
A History of China Wolfram Eberhard 1949
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