copse

Definition

A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).

Etymology

1578, from coppice, by contraction, originally meaning “small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting”.

Example Sentences

• "Agrimonie groweth in places not tylled, in rough stone mountaynes, in hedges and Copses, and by waysides."
• "The day is come when I again repose Here, under this dark sycamore, and view These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard tufts, Which at this season, with their unripe fruits, Among the woods and copses lose themselves,"
• "Three thundercloven thrones of oldest snow, / Stood sunsetflushed: and, dewed with showery drops, / Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse."