different between agriculture vs assart

English

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Etymology

Borrowed from Latin agricultura, from ager (“field”) + cultura (“cultivation”). See acre and culture.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?æ????k?lt??/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?æ????k?lt??/

Noun

agriculture (plural agricultures)

1. The art or science of cultivating the ground, including the harvesting of crops, and the rearing and management of livestock

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French

Etymology

From agri- +? culture, or borrowed from Latin agricultura.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /a.??i.kyl.ty?/

Noun

agriculture f (plural agricultures)

1. agriculture

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Further reading

• “agriculture” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Anagrams

• agriculteur

Middle French

Noun

agriculture f (uncountable)

1. agriculture

English

Etymology

From French essart from Vulgar Latin exsartum.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??s??(?)t/
• Rhymes: -??(?)t

Noun

assart (countable and uncountable, plural assarts)

1. Forest land cleared for agriculture.
2. (law, obsolete) The act or offence of grubbing up trees and bushes, and thus destroying the thickets or coverts of a forest.

   (Can we find and add a quotation of Spelman to this entry?)

   • 1607, John Cowell, The Interpreter: or Booke Containing the Signification of Words, Cambridge: John Legate,^[1]

     […] an assart of the Forest, is the greatest offence or trespasse of all other, that can be done in the forest, to vert or venison, containing in it as much as waste or more. For whereas the waste of the Forest, is but the felling and cutting downe of the couerts, which may grow againe in time: an assart, is a plucking them vp […]

Verb

assart (third-person singular simple present assarts, present participle assarting, simple past and past participle assarted)

1. To clear forest land for agriculture; remove stumps.
   • 1661, Thomas Blount, Glossographia, London: George Sawbridge,^[2]

     […] if a man sue out a Licence to assart his grounds in the Forest, and to make it several for Tillage, then it is no offence.

   • 1775, John Ash, The New and Complete Dictionary of the English Language, London: Edward & Charles Dilly, Volume I,^[3]

     ASSART v.t. […] To clear away wood.

See also

• thwaite

References

Anagrams

• Rastas, Ratass, Sastra, astars, rastas