Coppice definition
To cut or prune (a tree) in making or maintaining a coppice.
verb
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.
noun
To grow as a coppice after cutting. Used of trees.
verb
Her plan to coppice the woods should keep her self-sufficient in fuel indefinitely.
verb
Other Word Forms
Noun
Singular:
coppice
Plural:
coppicesOrigin 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).
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