про́сека

rare #32744

nounfeminineinanimatecountable

1.
cleared strip (in a forest), clearing, cuttingforestry
Мы вышли на широ́кую про́секу.
We came out onto a wide forest cutting.
A long narrow lane cut through woodland, not an open glade (that is «поляна»).

Examples

Лесники расчистили новую просеку летом.
The foresters cleared a new strip through the forest in the summer.
Через лес проходит широкая просека.
A wide clearing runs through the forest.
По просеку шла старая дорога.
An old road ran along the clearing.
Рабочие занимались прорубкой просеки в лесу.
The workers were cutting a clearing through the forest.
Вдоль просека тянулись электрические провода.
Power lines stretched along the clearing.
Бригада, вырубавшая просеку, двигалась медленно.
The crew clearing a strip through the forest moved slowly.
Мы шли по просеке до озера.
We walked along the clearing to the lake.

про́секopening
nounmasculine
про́секаcleared strip (in a forest)
nounfeminine
усека́тьto truncate; to get it
verbimperfective
высека́тьto carve
verbimperfective
засека́тьto time (with a stopwatch); to locate; to notch; to flog to death
verbimperfective