1. swidden - Noun
2. swidden - Verb
swidden (plural swiddens)
An area of land that has been cleared by cutting the vegetation and burning it; slash and burn.
swidden (third-person singular simple present swiddens, present participle swiddening, simple past and past participle swiddened)
To clear an area of land by cutting and burning.
Fire was the main method of clearing land, creating pasture and swidden types of fire-fallow farmland. Source: Internet
The political economy would have been a mixture of hunting and gathering and swidden or shifting agriculture. Source: Internet