"forcefall" meaning in English

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          "ref": "1924, Frederick Spencer Oliver, A Dweller on Two Planets, page 64",
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          "text": "Tops of sweet birch snap strong and stiff like bones busting against bats or the sides of heads slapping concrete through the forcefall that takes a score more limbs before piercing top soil like carelessly falling arrows.",
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