different between astart vs assart
astart
English
Etymology
From Middle English asterten, asteorten, from a- (from Old English ?-) + sterten, equivalent to a- +? start.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??st??(?)t/
Verb
astart (third-person singular simple present astarts, present participle astarting, simple past and past participle astarted)
- (transitive, 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 [...].
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.ii:
- (intransitive) To start up.
- (obsolete) To get away, escape; escape from.
- (intransitive) To be escaped from.
Adverb
astart (not comparable)
- (obsolete) With a start; suddenly.
Anagrams
- Attars, Sattar, Tatars, Tatras, attars, strata
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assart
English
Etymology
From French essart from Vulgar Latin exsartum.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /??s??(?)t/
- Rhymes: -??(?)t
Noun
assart (countable and uncountable, plural assarts)
- Forest land cleared for agriculture.
- (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)
- 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.
- 1661, Thomas Blount, Glossographia, London: George Sawbridge,[2]
See also
- thwaite
References
Anagrams
- Rastas, Ratass, Sastra, astars, rastas
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