Assart

Part of speech: noun (n.)

1. The act or offense of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the tickets or coverts of a forest. Spelman. Cowell.

2. A piece of land cleared of trees and bushes, and fitted for cultivation; a clearing. Ash. Assart land, forest land cleared of woods and brush.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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