单词 | copsewood |
释义 | copsewoodcoppice-woodn. 1. A copse n. archaic or Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued > coppice or grove hurst822 grove889 wood bough?c1225 wood lay?c1225 wood lind?c1225 wood rise?c1225 spring1396 firth?a1400 berwec1440 spring?c1475 grovet1504 coppice1538 copsewood1543 sherwood1562 hewt1575 copse1578 grove-crop1582 berrie1591 low wood1591 spinney1597 spinet1604 spring wood1607 roughet1616 oart1690 toft1706 under-grove1731 bosket1737 busket1803 α. β. 1602 R. Carew Surv. Cornwall i. f. 21 The East quarters of the Shire are not destitute of Copswoods.1732 M. Delany Autobiogr. & Corr. (1861) I. 376 A little copsewood which is cut into vistas and serpentine walks.1830 W. Scott Lett. Demonol. & Witchcraft v. 162 Sequestered valleys, and dim copsewoods.1543 Act 35 Hen. VIII c. 17 §1 In and upon all..Woods commonlie called Coppieswoods and Underwoods. 1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 104 Coppisse wooddes, that are continually to be feld. 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. 380 There be also of Date trees coppey woods, which they vse to fell and cut at certaine times. 1626 F. Bacon Sylua Syluarum v. §425 To make hasty Growing Coppice-Woods. 1790 C. Ambler Rep. Cases Chancery 131 All coppice woods are liable to tithes. 1811 J. Pinkerton Petralogy II. 543 The crater being filled with coppice woods and pools of water. 2. The low trees and underwood of a copse. ΘΚΠ 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 coppice1577 copsewood1664 copse1735 copsing1785 coppicing1891 α. β. 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva iii. §16 (R.) Generally copps-wood should be cut close.1884 Queen Victoria More Leaves 288 Trees and copsewood sprinkled about.1809 W. Bawdwen tr. Domesday Bk. 7 There is coppice wood there. 1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District (1879) 20 After threading through some coppice-wood. 3. attributive, as copsewood oak. ΚΠ 1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. IV. 489 There is..one considerable tract of copsewood-oak. Derivatives ˈcopsewooded adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > relating to copse, thicket, or undergrowth busky1570 thicketed?1624 thickety1640 copsy1757 copsed1782 underwooded1811 coppiced1832 shawy1848 copsewooded1862 1862 J. Grant Capt. of Guard liv. 387 In many a copsewooded glen. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2021). < n.1543 |
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