单词 | assartment |
释义 | assartmentn. Law. Chiefly historical. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > hire or rent > rent (land or real property) > [noun] > rents for specific types of property watergavel1231 mead-gavel1235 fold-gabel1384 water-mail1395 house rent1427 stand mail1603 assartment1657 ground rent?1677 danger1693 mailing1725 1657 W. Prynne Exact Abridgem. Rec. Tower of London 147 That there be levied no assertments. 1691 Blount's Νομο-λεξικον (ed. 2) Assart-Rents, Were Rents paid to the Crown, for Forest Lands assarted... Assartments..seems to be used in the same sence. 2. The action or process of converting forest or waste land to arable use by clearing trees, bushes, etc. Also as a count noun: a piece of land converted to arable use in this way. Cf. assart n. 1, 2. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > farm > farmland > land suitable for cultivation > [noun] > cleared land fellingOE sartc1290 assarta1450 thwaite1628 essart1656 beat-field1808 clearing1817 clearage1827 assartment1829 clearancea1839 burn1839 joom1855 swidden1868 screef1934 screef mark1950 1829 Gentleman's Mag. June 524/2 The assartment of the woodlands has both abated and shortened those gloomy periods. 1840 T. Stapleton Magni Rotuli Scaccarii Normanniæ I. p. cxxii The progress of the assartment which gave birth to the new vills here referred to. 1987 H. İslamoğlu-İnan Ottoman Empire & World Econ. v. 116 Large numbers of balta yeri entries that represent assartments from land under forest or scrub. 2006 Agric. Hist. Rev. 54 23 A period of assartment, division of land and commodity production in the Rhineland. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2021). < |
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