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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Coppice \Cop"pice\ (k[o^]p"p[i^]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Coppiced} (-p[i^]st); p. pr & vb n. {Coppicing}.]
(Forestry)
To cause to grow in the form of a coppice; to cut back (as
young timber) so as to produce shoots from stools or roots.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Coppice \Cop"pice\ (k[o^]p"p[i^]s), n. [OF. copeiz fr coper,
couper, to cut, F. couper, fr cop, coup, colp, a blow, F.
coup, L. colaphus fr Gr ko`lafos. Cf {Copse}, and cf
{Coup['e]}, {Coupee}.]
A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut
at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See {Copse}.
The rate of coppice lands will fall, upon the discovery
of coal mines. --Locke.
From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]:
coppice
n : a dense growth of bushes [syn: {brush}, {brushwood}, {copse},
{thicket}]
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