What is "coppices"

Usage examples of "coppices".

There were orchards and well-tended herb gardens, as also carefully managed coppices and lightly wooded areas where wild boar and deer roamed.

That when the lord of the said manor doth cut down any, or either of the said coppices, he, by the custom, is not compellable to fence the same for seven years after such cutting, nor to suffer the same to lie open.

On the other side of the valley sloping coppices abound, and therein can I show thee many badger holes.

Wooded hills were the northern, and sloping coppices the southern boundary of the vale.

That every copyholder of inheritance of the said manor may sell any of his coppices, under-woods, and rows, and use them at pleasure.

That the customary tenants of the said manor have right to feed their cattle in the three coppices called South Holmes, Hele Coppice, and Holman Coppice, within the said manor, and a right to the mast there.

That the lord of the said manor ought not to cut down the said coppices, or one of them altogether, or at any one time, but by parts or pieces, when he pleases.

The road curled around stubborn coppices tended by woodsmen and the occasional ash swale, but at length they mounted to higher ground.

The coppices and woodlands were painted with color, and the smell of woodsmoke drifted on the breeze.

These green mounds were known by many names, such as raths, knowes, brughs, lisses, and sitheans or shians, but passage existed also under lakes, in coppices, in wells, in high places and low.

The wavering lines were sometimes joined, and sometimes broken, by coppices of trees, the nearer looking exactly like Uncle Sebastian's pencil-sketches of winter trees, the farther blurred by distance into patches of gray haze, containing the occasional green lance-head of a conifer.