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Definition of Assart
1. n. The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest.
2. v. t. To grub up, as trees; to commit an assart upon; as, to assart land or trees.
Definition of Assart
1. Noun. Forest land cleared for agriculture. ¹
2. Verb. To clear forest land for agriculture; remove stumps. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Assart
1. to reclaim land [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Medical Definition of Assart
1. 1. The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the tickets or coverts of a forest. 2. A piece of land cleared of trees and bushes, and fitted for cultivation; a clearing. Assart land, forest land cleared of woods and brush. Origin: OF. Essart the grubbing up of trees, fr. Essarter to grub up or clear ground of bushes, shrubs, trees, etc, fr. LL. Exartum, exartare, for exsaritare; L. Ex + sarire, sarrire, saritum, to hoe, weed. To grub up, as trees; to commit an assart upon; as, to assart land or trees. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)
Literary usage of Assart
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Collection of Acts and Records of Parliament: With Reports of Cases by Sir Henry Gwillim, Charles Ellis (1825)
"Then that being the fact, let us see what good writers upon the subject have said
upon the distinction between these two cases of an assart and a ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1849)
"What precisely is meant by an " assart " ? H. ASKEW. DR. ANDREWS AND BACON'S "
APOPHTHEGMS."—Isaac D'Israeli, in his ' Curiosities of Literature' (1866 edn. ..."
3. The Ecclesiastical Law by Richard Burn, Robert Philip Tyrwhitt (1824)
"... that the king in his forest aforesaid may build towns, assart lands (or make
them fit for tillage), and confer those churches, with the tithes thereof, ..."
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