sart

From Middle English sart, from Old French sart, from Medieval Latin sarrītum (“to hoe”).

sart (plural sarts)

1. (UK, obsolete) An assart, or clearing; land cleared for agriculture.
   • 1859, John Jones, quoting Monasticon Anglicanum, volume 1, c. 1450, The History and Antiquities of Harewood, in the County of York‎, page 223:

     And the syte of an olde mylne with a littel sart that lyes betwixt the mylne and the Ellers with other land in Arthington and all the water within his fee for helping and sustayneing of the said nownree

• sart in An American Dictionary of the English Language, by Noah Webster, 1828.
• sart in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928), “Sart, n.¹”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), London: Clarendon Press, →OCLC.

• 'rats, RAST, RATs, RTAs, Star, TSRA, arts, arts., rats, star, tars, tsar

sart (neuter sart, plural and definite singular attributive sarte)

1. tender, vulnerable
2. (of a spot on one's body) tender, hurting when touched
3. tender, caring, careful not to harm

From Armenian սարդ (sard). Doublet of sayıt.

sart[1][2]

1. (dialectal, Artvin) spider

   Synonym: örümcek