DCHP-1 Online
new cut Obs. 
a strip cut through the forest, the felled trees being placed at the roadside to leave a primitive road about 30 feet wide.
- 1830 I felt too happy to be released from the execrable "new cuts," that may some day perchance deserve the name of roads, through this part of the country--to detain you long upon them.
- 1830 I felt too happy to be released from the execrable "new cuts," that may some day perchance deserve the name of roads, through this part of the country--to detain you long upon them.