coppice

A recently coppiced alder.

English

Etymology

From Old French coupeiz (“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  (kolaphos).

Noun

Wikipedia coppice (plural coppices)

1. 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.
   • 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.

Synonyms

• copse

Derived terms

• copse

Translations

grove of small growth

Bulgarian: гъсталак (bg) m., шубрак (bg) m. Danish: please add this translation if you can Dutch: hakhout (nl) n. Finnish: vesakko (fi), pensaikko (fi) French: taillis m., boqueteau m. German: please add this translation if you can Hungarian: please add this translation if you can

Italian: bosco ceduo (it) m. Polish: zagajnik (pl) m. Romanian: please add this translation if you can Russian: рощица (ru) (róščica) f., лесок (ru) (lesók) m. Scottish Gaelic: preasarlach (gd) m. Spanish: please add this translation if you can Swedish: please add this translation if you can

Verb

coppice (third-person singular simple present coppices, present participle coppicing, simple past and past participle coppiced)

1. 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

• recoppice

References

• “coppice” in the Online Etymology Dictionary, Douglas Harper, 2001 [see also its linking entry coup]