copse
Origin of coppice
Middle English copis from Old French copeis from coper, colper, to strike: see coupcoppice
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coppice
noun
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.
verb
cop·piced, cop·pic·ing, cop·pic·esverb
transitiveTo cut or prune (a tree) in making or maintaining a coppice.
verb
intransitiveTo grow as a coppice after cutting. Used of trees.
Origin of coppice
Old French copeiz ; see copse .THE AMERICAN HERITAGE® DICTIONARY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE, FIFTH EDITION by the Editors of the American Heritage Dictionaries. Copyright © 2016, 2011 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
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Noun
(plural coppices)
Verb
(third-person singular simple present coppices, present participle coppicing, simple past and past participle coppiced)
- To manage a wooded area sustainably, as a coppice.
- Her plan to coppice the woods should keep her self-sufficient in fuel indefinitely.
Origin
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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