slash ((v.))

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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clear land of trees and brush.

See: slashing(def. 1)

Quotations

1821

. . . he had slashed down a large piece of wood; and now he determined to raise a crop which would do something for him in the fall.

1889

The native forest had been "slashed" in that particular locality, and workmen passed from point to point by the help of the fallen trees. . . .

1931

. . . and five acres of virgin land were slashed, grubbed, broken, and double-disced, in readiness for the prospective occupant.

1962

Sometimes we built fence or slashed brush to extend the yard.