What is "recleared"

Usage examples of "recleared".

Within very few years after the takeover, the newly rebuilt fort was strong and comfortable for what it wasa primitive fortification set in the midst of a primitive wildernessthe old, Irish croplands had been recleared and once more were producing fine yields, herds of swine and goats and flocks of chickens battened in the woods, and a saw pit was reducing cured timber to planks for the church under construction in the riverside settlement.