Coppice meaning

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A thicket or grove of small trees or shrubs, especially one maintained by periodic cutting or pruning to encourage suckering, as in the cultivation of cinnamon trees for their bark.
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To cut or prune (a tree) in making or maintaining a coppice.
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To grow as a coppice after cutting. Used of trees.
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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.
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To manage a wooded area sustainably, as a coppice.

Her plan to coppice the woods should keep her self-sufficient in fuel indefinitely.

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Origin of coppice

  • Old French copeiz copse
    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition
  • 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).
    From Wiktionary

Coppice Sentence Examples

  • Where poles are required, it is better to treat the trees as coppice and to cut the trunk level with the soil.

  • COPPICE, or Copse (from an O.

  • Heaths and coppice alternate with pastures and arable land; pools and marshes are numerous, especially in the north.

  • coppice rotation of up to eight years.

  • The trees felled will be replaced with a coppice woodland.

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