To clear the land

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(Naut.)

to gain such a distance from shore as to have sea room, and be out of danger from the land.

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I planted about two acres and a half of upland; and as it was only about fifteen years since the land was cleared, and I myself had got out two or three cords of stumps, I did not give it any manure; but in the course of the summer it appeared by the arrowheads which I turned up in hoeing, that an extinct nation had anciently dwelt here and planted corn and beans ere white men came to clear the land, and so, to some extent, had exhausted the soil for this very crop.

Walden & on the Duty of Civil Disobedience by Thoreau, Henry David View in context

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