coppice

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Beyond and above the orchard comes a stretch of pastureland and then a young oak-coppice, the fringe of a great estate, with a few Scotch firs breaking the sky-line on top of all.

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  1. 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.

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  • Having walked around the coppice area for a good while, it ` s a place hard to beat for natual beauty second only to the lakes in my view, can ` t wait for the wildlife area, bring it on.
  • Having walked around the coppice area for a good while, it ` s a place hard to beat for natual beauty second only to the lakes in my view, can ` t wait for the wildlife area, bring it on. jakey30, Burnley, Lancs says ...
  • They left behind in the marshy coppice, and on the wooded slopes and by the embankment, four thousand dead and wounded. —  The Long Roll
  • One of the best-known names is that of copse or coppice, and it brings with it remembrances of the fresh beauty of spring days, on which--sheltered by the light copse-wood from winds that are still keen--we have revelled in sunshine warm enough to persuade us that summer was come "for good," as we picked violets and primroses to the tolling of the cuckoo Things "in miniature" have a natural charm for little people, and most of my young readers have probably been familiar with favourite copses, or miniature pine-forests. —  Miscellanea
  • The coppice is good coppice, too Twill hardly pay to clear," answered Mr Middlecoat. —  Hocken and Hunken
 

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