coppiced
- a word derived from coppice.
Example Sentences
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Willows are coppiced — cut regularly to within an inch or two of the base to flush fresh growth — or pollarded, with cuts made higher up on the trunk or branches.
From Seattle Times • Mar. 6, 2024
Ennos spares no effort to understand how they were made: “We investigated the force and energy needed to split coppiced hazel rods down the middle in my Instron Universal Testing Machine.”
From New York Times • Jan. 5, 2021
Old, coppiced plane trees create a thick green roof over faded red umbrellas and pastel metal tables.
From Washington Post • Jan. 7, 2016
Swilling involves tearing thin strips from a trunk of boiled coppiced oak, then weaving them round larger strips, known as "spelks", which form the ribs of the basket.
From BBC • Jul. 18, 2014
And again a hunting morning Saw Loch Búy and his men, With his boy, his guests, and kinsmen, Hidden o'er a coppiced glen.
From Memories of Canada and Scotland — Speeches and Verses by Campbell, John Douglas Sutherland
