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assarts

assarts is the plural of assart.

assarts is the third-person singular simple present indicative of assart.

Meaning of assart

Noun

assart (countable and uncountable, plural assarts)

  1. Forest land cleared for agriculture.
    Synonyms:
    riding, royd, thwaite
  2. (obsolete) The act or offence of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest.
    • […] an assart of the Forest, is the greatest offence or trespasse of all other, that can be done in the forest, to vert or venison, containing in it as much as waste or more. For whereas the waste of the Forest, is but the felling and cutting downe of the couerts, which may grow againe in time: an...1607, John Cowell, The Interpreter: or Booke Containing the Signification of Words, Cambridge: John Legate

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Questions about assarts

What is assarts the plural of?
Assarts is the plural of assart.

Words near assarts in the dictionary

  1. assarion
  2. assarius
  3. assart
  4. assarted
  5. assarting
  6. assarts
  7. assassin
  8. assassin bug
  9. assassin bugs
  10. assassin flies
  11. assassin fly

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