assart

assart has 3 senses in the JumbleFix dictionary. Letters: 6.

Definitions

• n.. The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest.
• n.. A piece of land cleared of trees and bushes, and fitted for cultivation; a clearing.
• v. t.. To grub up, as trees; to commit an assart upon; as, to assart land or trees.