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Coppiced

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.

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coppiced

vb. (en-past of: coppice)

Usage examples of "coppiced".

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.

Even most of the small thickets clinging to the slopes were coppiced for firewood.

Not the grand, marble-lined monument dominating the city from its northern bluffs, but a modest, one-story retreat that rambled over a fenced hectare of neatly coppiced woods, several kilometers upriver from the heart of the busy metropolis.

This land they called the Summer Country, all hill and wood and hidden pools, seemed a world away from the broad flat fields and coppiced woodlands around Camulodunum.

The hills have been smoothed, the rivers banked, the woods coppiced for thousands of years.