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clearance
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DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
a tract of bushland cleared for cultivation or settlement; also, a settlement on such land.
See: clearing(def. 1)
Quotations
1822
Afterwards, when the whole projected clearance was made . . . it became necessary to attack the reserved, and standing trees. . . .
1852
The little clearance, as they call it, what a very state of confusion it is!
1908
The logs gathered from the clearance were piled around.