afforesting
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]afforesting (countable and uncountable, plural afforestings)
- Synonym of afforestation
- 1760, Edmund Burke, “An Essay towards an Abridgment of the English History. […]”, in [Walker King], editor, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, new edition, volume X, London: […] [R. Gilbert] for C[harles] and J[ohn] Rivington, […], published 1826, →OCLC, book III, page 534:
- The Charter of the Forests had for its object the disafforesting several of those tracts; the prevention of future afforestings: the mitigation and ascertainment of the punishments for breaches of the Forest Law.
Verb
[edit]afforesting
- present participle and gerund of afforest