vbl. sb. [f. AFFOREST + -ING1.] The process of converting into forest; afforestation.
1649. Selden, Laws of Eng., I. lvi. (1739), 102. Unlawful Taxes, Afforrestings, and other such Oppressions.
1757. Burke, Abridgm. Eng. Hist., III. viii. (1812), 534. The Charter of the Forests had for its object … the prevention of future afforesting.
