HomeServicesBlogDictionariesContactSpanish Course
← Back to search

Meaning of assart | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
əˈsɑː(ɹ)t

Definitions

  1. Forest land cleared for agriculture.
  2. The act or offence of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest.

Examples

“[…] 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 assart, is a plucking them vp […]”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
See all B1 English words →

See also

Learn this word in context

See assart used in real conversations inside our free language course.

Start Free Course

Know this word better than we do? Language is a living thing — help us keep it growing. Collaborate with Babel Free