disafforest

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

DISAFFOREST, verb transitive [dis and afforest.] To reduce from the privileges of a forest to the state of common ground; to strip of forest laws and their oppressive privileges. By Charter 9. Hen. III many forests were disafforested.
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