Crossword clues for coppice
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coppice \Cop"pice\ (k[o^]p"p[i^]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coppiced (k[o^]p"p[i^]st); p. pr. & vb. n. Coppicing (k[o^]p"p[i^]*s[i^]ng).] (Forestry) To cause to grow in the form of a coppice; to cut back (as young timber) so as to produce shoots from stools or roots.
Coppice \Cop"pice\ (k[o^]p"p[i^]s), n. [OF. copeiz, fr. coper, couper, to cut, F. couper, fr. cop, coup, colp, a blow, F. coup, L. colaphus, fr. Gr. ko`lafos. Cf. Copse, and cf. Coup['e], Coupee.] A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse.
The rate of coppice lands will fall, upon the discovery
of coal mines.
--Locke.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "small thicket of trees grown for cutting," from Old French copeiz, coupeiz "a cut-over forest," from Vulgar Latin *colpaticium "having been cut," ultimately from Latin colaphus "a blow with the fist," from Greek kolaphos "blow, cuff" (see coup).
Wiktionary
n. A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes, typically managed to promote growth and ensure a reliable supply of timber. See copse. vb. To manage a wooded area sustainably, as a coppice.
WordNet
Usage examples of "coppice".
On a shelf of smooth stone overhanging a deep pool in the hollow of an oak coppice a boy of about sixteen lay asprawl, drying his wet brown limbs luxuriously in the sun.
When I first arrived, sitting at the same desk and looking out of the same window, the view was of a patchwork of small fields, some edged with trees, one with a large pond in the middle and over to the far left of my vista was a very charming coppice of ancient broadleaf native trees.
No matter what the tree is, the poplar of France, or the brookside willow or oak coppice of England, or the chestnuts or mulberries of Italy, all are interesting when being pruned, or when pruned just lately.
The three-bedroomed cottage, which had electricity and a view out across open country to Letterbox and Fingerpost Fields, Yewtree Coppice and Stone Redding, lay on the outskirts of Much Marcle at a bend on the Dymock road, and it was here, at the age of barely twenty, that she bore her fourth child, and her first daughter, whom she called Little Daisy.
Even the mistress herself, so wise at the outset, finally flung prudence to the winds, and skirmished through the coppices with enthusiasm equal to that of her pupils, lured from the pathway by the glimpses of kingcups, or the pursuit of a peacock butterfly.
There were orchards and well-tended herb gardens, as also carefully managed coppices and lightly wooded areas where wild boar and deer roamed.
They determined on walking round Beechen Cliff, that noble hill whose beautiful verdure and hanging coppice render it so striking an object from almost every opening in Bath.
They determined on walking round Beechen Cliff, that noble hill whose beautiful verdure and hanging coppice render it so striking an object from almost every opening in Bath.
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.
Morgen was out of sight when the Saint got outside, but the blundering and crashing of his flight could be heard distinctly in the coppice to the left, and Simon's brain was working like a comptometer nowwhen it was a little late.
Korlat rode to where Whiskeyjack had halted beneath the tree-lined crest that marked the beginning of the coppiced parkland, and drew rein alongside him.
They rode the track between coppiced stands, the path gently rising towards what Itkovian judged to be an escarpment of some kind.
There was little of wildness, only scattered thickets, and most of those neatly coppiced to provide firewood.
Slowly the creature lumbered into the air, barely clearing the treetops of a coppiced thicket at the end of the field.
Lord Gareth paused as if he wanted to speak with her once more, but finally he turned his bay east after the cavalry, trotting to catch up as they vanished beyond a long, coppiced stand of trees.