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Astart vs Assart - What's the difference?

astart | assart |

As verbs the difference between astart and assart

is that astart is to cause to start; startle; start up; jump while assart is to clear forest land for agriculture; remove stumps.

As a noun assart is

forest land cleared for agriculture.

astart

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • (obsolete) To cause to start; startle; start up; jump.
  • *1590 , Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene , III.ii:
  • *:oft out of her bed she did astart , / As one with vew of ghastly feends affright [...].
  • To start up.
  • (obsolete) To get away, escape; escape from.
  • To be escaped from.

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    assart

    English

    (wikipedia assart)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Forest land cleared for agriculture.
    • (Ash)
  • (legal, obsolete) The act or offence of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the tickets or coverts of a forest.
    • (Spelman)
    (Cowell)

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To clear forest land for agriculture; remove stumps.

    • See also

    * thwaite

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