coafforest

English

Etymology

co- +‎ afforest

Verb

coafforest (third-person singular simple present coafforests, present participle coafforesting, simple past and past participle coafforested)

1. (transitive, rare) To convert into, or add to, a forest.
   • 1655, James Howell, “To the Earl of Lindsey”, in Epistolæ Ho-Elianæ. Familiar Letters Domestic and Forren. […], 3rd edition, volume (please specify the page), London: […] Humphrey Mos[e]ley, […], →OCLC:

     Henry Fitz-Empresse (viz. , the Second) did coafforest much Land

References

“coafforest”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.