Definition of assart Assart
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What does assart mean?
Wiktionary 
- assart (Noun)
Forest land cleared for agriculture. - assart (Noun)
The act or offence of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the tickets or coverts of a forest. - assart (Verb)
To clear forest land for agriculture; remove stumps.
Webster DictionaryWebster's Unabridged Dictionary 📘
- assart (n.)
The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest. - assart (n.)
A piece of land cleared of trees and bushes, and fitted for cultivation; a clearing. - assart (v. t.)
To grub up, as trees; to commit an assart upon; as, to assart land or trees.
