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Definition of assart in English English dictionary
- Forest land cleared for agriculture
- To clear forest land for agriculture; remove stumps
- The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest
- to clear forest land for agriculture
- To grub up, as trees; to commit an assart upon; as, to assart land or trees
- A piece of land cleared of trees and bushes, and fitted for cultivation; a clearing