blasty a Comb blasty bough, cp SPRAY.
   1980 Gazette 18 Sep, p. 8 'Some [of the trees] may have gone a bit blasty, but they appear to be doing quite well.' 1982 BURSEY 22 "No Sadness of Farewell": Fall days cutting winter wood,/Sweet-smelling wood of birch and alder,/Fir, spruce and juniper;/Blasty boughs cremated/To warm feet and fingers. 1988 Evening Telegram 30 Sep, p. 6 Well, fellow Newfoundlanders of like mind, are we too green to burn or has the time come to bring on the blasty boughs?

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