coppicingn.
/ˈkɒpɪsɪŋ/ a. Coppice-wood.
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the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > brushwood, scrub, or underwood > of a coppice
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1891 Field 7 Mar. 337/1 The awful damage they [rabbits] did to coppicing during the frost.
b. The treating of wood as coppice; the cutting down of trees periodically so that new shoots may grow from the stumps. Also attributive.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > coppicing
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coppice system1882
encoppicement1935
1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 329 The coppicing system consists in cutting down the trees near the ground, and allowing one or more of the crops of shoots, which rise from the stumps, to grow.
1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 395 Uprooting, coppicing, and thinning.
1922 W. Schlich Man. Forestry (ed. 4) I. 236 Methods of thinning, coppicing, &c.
1952 Oxf. Junior Encycl. VI. 101/2 Pollarding is a similar method of growing small brushwood, but differs from coppicing in that the trees are cut back at a height of about 6 feet, instead of about ground level.
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