ASSART

Definition: ASSART

ASSART

Noun

1. A piece of land cleared of trees and bushes, and fitted for cultivation; a clearing.

2. The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest.

Transitive verb

1. To grub up, as trees; to commit an assart upon; as, to assart land or trees.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Etymology: Assart \As*sart"\ ([a^]s*s[aum]rt"), noun. [Old French essart the grubbing up of trees, from essarter to grub up or clear ground of bushes, shrubs, trees, etc., from Late Latin exartum, exartare, for exsaritare; Latin ex + sarire, sarrire, saritum, to hoe, weed.]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: ASSART

English words defined with "ASSART": Sart ♦ Thwaite. (references)

Etymologies containing "ASSART": SART. (references)

Domain	Title
Books	Assart Data and Land Values: Two Studies in the East Midlands 1200-1350 (Subsidia Mediaevalia, 3) (reference) (more book examples)
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"ASSART" is generally used as a noun (singular) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "ASSART" is used about 6 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (singular)	100%	6	143,867

Expression using "ASSART": assart land. Additional references.
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Derivations
	Words ending with "ASSART": brassart. (additional references)
	Words containing "ASSART": brassarts. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-a-r-s-s-t"
	-1 letter: stars, trass, tsars.
	-2 letters: arts, rats, star, tars, tass, tsar.
	-3 letters: aas, ars, art, ass, ras, rat, sat, tar, tas.
	-4 letters: aa, ar, as, at, ta.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-r-s-s-t"
	+1 letter: aristas, astrals, matrass, sataras, satraps, stratas, tarsals, tarsias.
	+2 letters: aerosats, alastors, artisans, ashtrays, asterias, atresias, australs, bastards, brassart, dastards, daystars, gastreas, mattrass, sastruga, smartass, stramash, tsarinas.
	+3 letters: abstracts, aerostats, alarmists, albatross, apartness, apiarists, aquarists, arbalests, arbalists, archaists, arethusas, arsenates, asperates, aspirants, aspirates, assaulter, astragals, australes, aviarists, bartisans, brassarts, cabrestas, cadasters, cadastres, caritases, castrates, castratos, catharses, catharsis, eastwards, gastraeas, gastrulas, intarsias, katharses, katharsis, loadstars, matrasses, megastars, palestras, parasites, partisans, pastorals, pastramis, radwastes, ratsbanes, sacristan, salariats, saleratus, sarcastic, satrapies, saturants, saturates, seacrafts, seastrand, seatrains, seawaters, separates, serenatas, staggards, staggarts, staircase, stairways, stalwarts, standards, stargazes, stearates, stravages, stravaigs, substrata, swarajist, tamarisks, teargases, transacts, tsarevnas, tsaritzas, wistarias.
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