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treestand en · NOUN

Etymology

From tree + stand.

Meanings

1. An open or enclosed platform secured to trees to provide a vantage point for hunters.
   • "If you're in a treestand, you need to think specifically about what kind of tree you're hunting from, so you can match the camo correctly," said Burch, a 30-year-old iron worker, who grew up hunting the Missouri woods near the town of Montrose, where he now lives. 2007 December 22, Scott Bowen, “Hunting Expands. So Does Camouflage. Can You See a Pattern Here?”, in New York Times:

Forms

Relateds

blind

Translations (3)

pl ambona (hunting stand) · de Hochsitz (hunting stand) · ru лаба́з (hunting stand)