assart (countable and uncountable, plural assarts)
Forest land cleared for agriculture.
(legal, obsolete) The act or offence of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest.
assart (third-person singular simple present assarts, present participle assarting, simple past and past participle assarted)
To clear forest land for agriculture; remove stumps.
• Rastas, Ratass, Sastra, astars, rastas
Source: Wiktionary
As*sart", n. Etym: [OF. essart the grubbing up of trees, fr. essarter to grub up or clear ground of bushes, shrubs, trees, etc., fr. LL. exartum, exartare, for exsaritare; L. ex + sarire, sarrire, saritum, to hoe, weed.]
1. (Old Law)
Definition: The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the tickets or coverts of a forest. Spelman. Cowell.
2. A piece of land cleared of trees and bushes, and fitted for cultivation; a clearing. Ash. Assart land, forest land cleared of woods and brush.
As*sart", v. t.
Definition: To grub up, as trees; to commit an assart upon; as, to assart land or trees. Ashmole.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
8 April 2025
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