different between covert vs assart

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Old French covert, past participle of covrir (“to cover”) (corresponding to Latin coopertus); cognate to cover.

Pronunciation

• Adjective:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?v?t/, /?k??v??t/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?ko?v??t/, /ko??v??t/, /?k?v??t/
• Noun:
  • (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?v?t/, /?k??v??t/, /?k?v?/
  • (US) IPA^(key): /?k?v??t/, /?ko?v??t/, /?k?v??/

Adjective

covert (comparative more covert, superlative most covert)

1. (now rare) Hidden, covered over; overgrown, sheltered.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, III.5:

     Within that wood there was a covert glade, / Foreby a narrow foord, to them well knowne […]

   • 1625, Francis Bacon, Of Gardens

     to plant a covert alley

2. (figuratively) Secret, surreptitious, concealed.

Synonyms

• See also Thesaurus:covert
• feme covert

Antonyms

• overt

Derived terms

• covert stuttering

Related terms

• cover

Translations

Noun

covert (plural coverts)

1. A covering.
2. A disguise.
3. A hiding place.
4. Area of thick undergrowth where animals hide.
5. (ornithology) A feather that covers the bases of flight feathers.

Translations

Anagrams

• corvet, vector

German

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?kav?t/

Verb

covert

1. inflection of covern:
   1. third-person singular present
   2. second-person plural present
   3. second-person plural subjunctive I
   4. plural imperative

Old French

Alternative forms

• cuvert
• covri

Etymology

From Latin coopertus.

Verb

covert

1. past participle of covrir

Descendants

• English: covert
• French: couvert

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