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ˈcopsewood, ˈcoppice-wood
1. A copse. arch. or Obs.
α1543Act 35 Hen. VIII, c. 17 §1 In and upon all..Woods commonlie called Coppieswoods and Underwoods. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 105 Coppisse Woodes, that are continually to be feld. 1601Holland Pliny I. 380 There be also of Date trees coppey woods, which they vse to fell and cut at certaine times. 1626Bacon Sylva v. §425 To make hasty Growing Coppice-Woods. 1790Ambler Reports 131 All coppice woods are liable to tithes. 1811Pinkerton Petral. II. 543 The crater being filled with coppice woods and pools of water.
β1602Carew Cornwall (J.), The East quarters of the shire are not destitute of copse woods. 1732Mrs. Delany Corr. I. 376 A little copsewood which is cut into vistas and serpentine walks. 1830Scott Demonol. v. 162 Sequestered valleys, and dim copsewoods.
2. The low trees and underwood of a copse.
α1809Bawdwen Domesday Bk. 7 There is coppice wood there. 1872Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lakes (1879) 20 After threading through some coppice-wood.
β1664Evelyn Sylva iii. §16 (R.) Generally copps-wood should be cut close. 1884Queen Victoria More Leaves 288 Trees and copsewood sprinkled about.
3. attrib., as copsewood oak.
1806Forsyth Beauties Scot. IV. 489 There is..one considerable tract of copsewood-oak.
Hence ˈcopsewooded ppl. a.
1862J. Grant Capt. of Guard liv, In many a copsewooded glen. |