clear land—remove trees and brushwood (to cultivate the soil):
- I have been clearing land for eight days, and now begin to feel the effects of poison—from ivy, doubtless.
clear the land—
1. = clear land:
- There were three ways by which the first settlers cleared the land. The first was called “slashing.”
2. (Nautical) maneuver close to land without running ashore:
- It looked a bit close to the beach where the ship was drifting. But we managed to clear the land…