Definition of "copse"

copse

/kɒps/

noun
plural copses
1. A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).
2. Any thicket of small trees or shrubs, coppiced or not.
  Quotations
  Agrimonie groweth in places not tylled, in rough stone mountaynes, in hedges and Copses, and by waysides.
  1578, Henry Lyte, transl., A niewe Herball or Historie of Plantes, translation of Cruydeboeck by Rembert Dodoens, page 57
  The day is come when I again reposeHere, under this dark sycamore, and viewThese plots of cottage-ground, these orchard tufts,Which at this season, with their unripe fruits,Among the woods and copses lose themselves,
  1798, [William Wordsworth], “Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey”, in Lyrical Ballads, with a Few Other Poems, London: […] J[ohn] & A[rthur] Arch, […], page 202
  Three thundercloven thrones of oldest snow, / Stood sunsetflushed: and, dewed with showery drops, / Upclomb the shadowy pine above the woven copse.
  1832 December (indicated as 1833), Alfred Tennyson, “The Lotos-Eaters”, in Poems, London: Edward Moxon, […], page 109
  Striking the highway beyond the little copse she skirted the dark iron palings enclosing Hare.
  1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth (hardback edition), p19
3. Any woodland or woodlot.
verb
third-person singular simple present copses, present participle copsing, simple past and past participle copsed
1. (transitive, horticulture) To trim or cut.
2. (transitive, horticulture) To plant and preserve.

Definition of "copse"

copse

noun

Quotations

verb