Definition of "wood-lot" [wood-lot]

• A lot covered with forest. See forest, 1. (noun)

The Century Dictionary (Public Domain)

• "An afternoon sufficed to lay out the land into orchard, wood-lot, and pasture, and to decide what fine oaks or pines should be left to stand before the door, and whence each blasted tree could be seen to the best advantage; and then I let it lie, fallow, perchance, for a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."
• "If you were a farmer, you could still have your sweets, if you made do with honey instead of sugar, and though sugar was rationed for tea, it was, oddly enough, not rationed for jam-making-you could hide a pig in your wood-lot, or raise rabbits openly, since rabbit-meat wasn't in short supply."
• "Doughbelly directed us into a wood-lot overlooking the stricken town."