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单词 copsewood
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copsewoodcoppice-woodn.

Etymology: Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcopsewood.
1. A copse n. archaic or Obsolete.
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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] > 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.
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.
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.
2. The low trees and underwood of a copse.
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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
coppice1577
copsewood1664
copse1735
copsing1785
coppicing1891
α.
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.
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.
3. attributive, as copsewood oak.
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1806 R. Forsyth Beauties Scotl. IV. 489 There is..one considerable tract of copsewood-oak.

Derivatives

ˈcopsewooded adj.
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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).
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