clearing

A place or tract of land cleared of wood for cultivation; a common use of the word in America.--Webster.

After we reached the boundaries of the clearing and plunged into the timbered land, this heat was exchanged for a grotto-like coolness.

Mrs. Clavers's Forest Life, Vol. I. p. 64.

Clearing
·noun The act or process of making clear. II. Clearing ·noun A tract of land cleared of wood for cu...

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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