assart
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English
6 letters
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Definitions
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.
To grub up, as trees; to commit an assart upon; as, to assart land or trees. Ashmole.
Definition: WordNet 3.1, Princeton University.
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