coppice
Americannoun
noun
verb
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(tr) to trim back (trees or bushes) to form a coppice
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(intr) to form a coppice
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Etymology
Origin of coppice
1375–1425; late Middle English copies < Middle French copeis, Old French copeiz < Vulgar Latin *colpātīcium cutover area, equivalent to *colpāt ( us ) past participle of *colpāre to cut ( see coup 1) + -īcium -ice
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"For this reason, hazel was often very common in historical coppice woodlands."
From Science Daily ● Nov. 14, 2023
National Trust manager Andrew Poad previously said the stump was "healthy" and they might be able to coppice the tree, where new shoots grow from the trunk's base.
From BBC ● Oct. 2, 2023
“They are molting now, buried in the mud out there,” Douglas said, gesturing toward the marshy coppice that crowds both sides of the two-lane Queen’s Highway, the major north-south road on Andros.
From Washington Post ● Oct. 14, 2015
I leant upon a coppice gate When Frost was spectre-gray, And Winter's dregs made desolate The weakening eye of day.
From Slate ● Jan. 1, 2013
The men had satisfied themselves the fugitives were in the coppice; and were beating back.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
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