different between assart vs thwaite

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

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English *thwait, a borrowing from Old Norse þveit (“paddock”). Compare Old Norse þveita (“to hurl”) (see whittle), Danish døjt (“¹?₁₆₀ of the gulden”, dialectal: “a small coin”), German Deut, Dutch duit. Cognate with Old English þw?tan (“to thwite; cut; cut off”). Doublet of doit, and possibly of twat.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?we?t/

Noun

thwaite (plural thwaites)

1. (archaic) A piece of forest land cleared for agriculture or habitation; a clearing; assart

Related terms

• thwite

Etymology 2

Noun

thwaite (plural thwaites)

1. Alternative form of twaite

Anagrams

• waiteth