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swid⋅den

  [swid-n]
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–noun
a plot of land cleared for farming by burning away vegetation.
Origin:
1951; special use of dial. (N England) swidden area of moor from which vegetation has been burned off, n. use of swidden, swithen to singe < ON svithna to be singed, deriv. of svītha to singe (cf. dial. swithe, ME swithen)
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swid·den   (swĭd'n)   
n.  An area cleared for temporary cultivation by cutting and burning the vegetation.

[Dialectal alteration of obsolete swithen, from Old Norse svidhna, to be burned.]
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