coppice
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Etymology [edit]
From Old French copeiz (“a cut-over forest”), from presumed Late Latin *colpaticium (“having the quality of being cut”), from *colpare (“to cut, strike”), from Medieval Latin colpus (“a blow”), from Vulgar Latin colapus, from Latin colaphus (“a cuff, box on the ear”), from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kolaphos).
Pronunciation [edit]
- IPA: /ˈkɒpɪs/
Noun [edit]
Wikipedia coppice (plural coppices)
- 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.
- 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, The Dust of Conflict[1]:
- […] belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards, […]
- 1957, Schubert, H.R. History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, p216:
- It was also enacted that all coppices or underwoods should be enclosed for periods from four to seven years after felling.
- 1907, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, The Dust of Conflict[1]:
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Translations [edit]
grove of small growth
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Verb [edit]
coppice (third-person singular simple present coppices, present participle coppicing, simple past and past participle coppiced)
- To manage a wooded area sustainably, as a coppice.
- Her plan to coppice the woods should keep her self-sufficient in fuel indefinitely.
Derived terms [edit]
Translations [edit]
manage a wooded area as a coppice
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References [edit]
- “coppice” in Douglas Harper, Online Etymology Dictionary (2001). [see also its linking entry coup]
