assart

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assart englanniksi

Forest land cleared for agriculture.
The act or offence of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest.
(quote-book)|title=The Interpreter: or Booke Containing the Signification of Words|location=Cambridge|publisher=John Legate|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A19476.0001.001
To clear forest land for agriculture; remove stumps.
(quote-book)|title=Glossographia|location=London|publisher=George Sawbridge|url=http://name.umdl.umich.edu/A28464.0001.001
1775, (w), ''The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language'', London: Edward & Charles Dilly, Volume I,https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/008590346

ASSART ''v.t.'' (..) To clear away wood.