swidden
noun
swid·den ˈswi-dᵊn 
often attributive
: a temporary agricultural plot formed by cutting back and burning off vegetative cover
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the Web Other examples of fire used as a form land management include Indigenous Australians' work regenerating grasslands, efforts to create fertile soil in the Amazon and swidden agriculture in Thailand. 
Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2021 Consequently, carbon storage under swidden-fallow systems is greater both above and below the ground. National Geographic, 8 Mar. 2016
Livia Gershon, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 May 2021 Consequently, carbon storage under swidden-fallow systems is greater both above and below the ground. National Geographic, 8 Mar. 2016 Word History
Etymology
English dialect, burned clearing, probably from Old Norse svithinn, past participle of svitha to burn, singe
First Known Use
circa 1868, in the meaning defined above