Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- n. A thicket of small trees or shrubs; a coppice.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
- n. A thicket of small trees or shrubs.
- v. To trim or cut.
- v. To plant and preserve.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
- n. A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See coppice.
- transitive v. To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc.
- transitive v. To plant and preserve, as a copse.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. See coppice.
- To cut or trim, as brushwood, tufts of grass, and the like.
- To plant or preserve, as underwoods.
- To inclose as in a copse.
- To form a coppice; grow up again from the roots after being cut down, as brushwood.
- Also coppice.
- n. Same as cops.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a dense growth of bushes
Etymologies
Examples
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I mean at least on my left hand (upon which side they were), for in front where the brook ran out of the copse was a good stiff hedge of holly.
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In the copse was a hidden patch of bare earth, known only to Janie and several thousand people who were wont to use it in pairs at night.
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Beyond the copse was a row of huddled-up cottages.
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In the heart of the copse was a rude wooden bench, built some years before by the factor's orders.
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Such little meadows as these about the copse are the favourite resort of birds and the very home of flowers -- more so than extensive woods like the Chace, or the open pastures and arable fields.
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No need saying that the cavalcade seen passing the copse is the lancer troop of Colonel Uraga.
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The chief timber of the copse was the pecan hickory -- almost an evergreen -- and the trees were still in full leaf; only here and there, where the trunks stood far apart, did the moonbeams strike through the thick frondage.
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Whilst he and Leander walked over the hill, they descended into a fine valley, at the bottom of which was a little kind of copse or thicket, composed of stately tall trees and close quickset hedges.
The Inhuman Stepmother, or the History of Miss Harriot Montague
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"Every human being has a natural right to walk across this copse, which is all waste ground, and has no crop sown in it.
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The young spaniel stalks under the copse of birch trees, thrusting his snout into the rabbit holes and intermittently exhaling hot air from his nostrils into the burrows.
Spring's here: skylarks overhead, moles in the garden, moths in the bathroom
milosrdenstvi commented on the word copse
And robberse!
November 11, 2010