Assart

Definition:

  • (n.) The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest.
  • (n.) A piece of land cleared of trees and bushes, and fitted for cultivation; a clearing.
  • (v. t.) To grub up, as trees; to commit an assart upon; as, to assart land or trees.

Compare assart with other words:

assart vs. assort

assart vs. astart

assart vs. assert

assart vs. expediate

assart vs. forest

assart vs. covert

assart vs. ticket

agriculture vs. assart

assart vs. land

assart vs. cleared

assart vs. thwaite