单词 | essart |
释义 | essartn. Law. Now historical and rare. A piece of forest or waste land converted to arable use; = assart n. 1. 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 1656 W. Dugdale Antiq. Warwickshire 177/2 This Grange was built by the Monks of Stoneley upon the essarts, which they made at Hurst. 1789 J. Pilkington View Derbyshire II. 388 William Ferrers..gave to the monks of Lenton in Nottinghamshire the tithe of all his essarts in the forest of high Peak. a1861 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. (1864) III. 258 The essarts still constitute the prominent features of the pleasant region. 1875 W. Stubbs Constit. Hist. II. 36 (note) The essarts and purprestures made in the forests of Hampshire. 1932 F. M. Stenton First Cent. Eng. Feudalism i. 15 William de Turville..granted to William the fisherman..an essart, and a fishery at Taplow. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). essartv. Law. historical. Now rare. transitive. To convert (forest or waste land) to arable use; = assart v. Also intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > cultivation or tillage > reclamation > reclaim [verb (transitive)] > clear land > in forest assart1523 rubbishc1602 glade1621 disforesta1668 essart1675 disafforest1842 de-afforest1848 deforest1880 1675 W. Dugdale Baronage Eng. I. 701/1 The Rigge, lying betwixt the Lands of William de Burbach, and Wishall; to be essarted, and reduc'd to Culture. 1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Essart, to extirpate or clear the ground of shrubs. 1841 Brit. & Foreign Q. Rev. 12 56 The Marcher who has a right to essart a portion of the forest. 1857 F. Palgrave Hist. Normandy & Eng. II. 435 The Forêt de Bichoul, of which the greater portions have long since been essarted. 1901 Rep. & Trans. Devonshire Assoc. 33 598 Other very large commons and cultivated areas known to have been essarted since Domesday. 1981 Saga-bk. Viking Soc. 20 216 Tinsley Forest at Brinsworth..has never been essarted. Derivatives eˈssarting n. ΚΠ a1821 T. D. Whitaker Hist. Richmondshire (1823) I. 7 A regular process of ‘essarting’ was uniformly carried on. 1861 C. Nicholson Ann. Kendal (ed. 2) 396 The ‘essarting’ of woods. 1931 Econ. Jrnl. 41 303 Fines ten to twenty times greater than any hitherto exacted for essarting. 1986 P. Southgate & T. Williamson tr. B. Gille Hist. Techniques I. 234 The clearing was done by essarting. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1656v.1675 |
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