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Assart
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As`sart´    (ăs`särt´)
n.1.(Old Law) The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets 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.
v. t.1.To grub up, as trees; to commit an assart upon; as, to assart land or trees.
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Most of these assarts, as they were called, seem to have emerged in wooded areas.
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