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essart (1121-25)
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essart (1121-25)

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asart,  asarte,  assart  (assait (l. assart)  Rot Parl1 ii 414,  esseit (l. essart)  Rot Parl1 ii 414 ),
(pl. assartiz  Rot Parl2 121,  assertes)  
  FEW:  *exsartum 3,318a Gdf:  essart 3,567c GdfC: ∅ TL: essart 3,1291 DEAF:  essart  DMF:  essart  TLF:  essart  OED:  assart n.  / essart n.  MED:  assart n.  DMLBS:  exsartum 864b

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1clearing, open space (in a wood): 
( 1121-25; MS: s.xiv1 )  iloec art Cum bruere en un asart  S Brend mup 1158
( s.xii3/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Gires li feit a une part Une logette en sun essart  S Gile1 1534
( s.xiii1/3; MS: s.xiiim )  Qui dunc veist saillir Lumbarz Cum cheveroil hors des assarz  Gui War 5816
2lawassart, a piece of forest land or pasture land converted into arable land: 
( 1314 )  Lexcigworthe est un assart en Lextone  YBB Ed II xviii 136
( 1323 )  des countees, citees [...] villes, hundredz, assartz et purprestures  Red Bk 850
( c.1327 )  une assait (l. assart) en la foreste de R. […]. R.F. de C, plosours autres […] ousterent les avaundiz R. et J. de l’esseit (l. essart)  Rot Parl1 ii 414
( 1330 )  les dismes des assertes qe sun [sic] fet  Rot Parl1 ii 44
♦taxtax levied for assarting: 
( 1328 )  qe puse estre deschargee de un annuel assart de .xxx. s. .vj. d. qe ly sound demaundetz  Rot Parl1 ii 20
3destruction, slaughter, massacre: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiii4/4 )  Des Burguinuns funt grant essart  Brut WACE 3085
( c.1230; MS: s.xiiiex )  Si li f[e]ist mult grant essart  Dermot2 212
faire essart de
1to assart (to clear an area and convert it into arable land): 
( c.1245; MS: c.1255 )  La gent reint e maisuns art. De bois e gardins fait assart  S Edw paris ANTS 4696
2to destroy, slaughter, massacre: 
( 1155; MS: s.xiiex )  Yder [...] Ki des Romeins fait grant essart  Brut WACE 12048
( 1174-75; MS: s.xiiex )  De cele gent estrange fait merveillus essart  FANT OUP 1052
( c.1235; MS: c.1235 )  Descunfit s’en vunt li bastard, Dunt li rois fait grant assart  S Aub 344rubr
♦fig.to sweep away: 
( c.1300; MS: s.xivm )  celui qe fet asart De chescun peril e des enuyz  S Cath anon 438
mettre a l'essart
to assart (to clear an area and convert it into arable land): 
( 1322 )  tauntqe Thomas, adonqes counte de Lancastre, les deseisi de mesme cele pasture e la fit arenter as certeins tenauntz en Hondford qi la mistrent en assart  TNA SC 8/6/278
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