The word “coppice” is a correct and usable word in written English.
It is a noun that refers to a thicket of small, young trees or shrubs that have been cut back regularly to provide wood. Example sentence: We saw a coppice of slender birch trees along the path in the woods.
A silvicultural system employing practices of short rotation (five to 10 years) and intensive culture (fertilization, weed, and insect and disease control) with superior genotypes relies on coppice, or regeneration from sprouts arising from stumps of felled trees, as the method of regeneration of the new crop and is characterized by high productivity.
Coppice, also called Copse, or Thicket, a dense grove of small trees or shrubs that have grown from suckers or sprouts rather than from seed.
A coppice usually results from human woodcutting activity and may be maintained by continually cutting new growth as it reaches usable size.
Further on, there is a delightful coppice with alders, ankle deep in bog-like dark waters.
Bogdan could tell that Szmura enjoyed these speeches; he would stroke the hair coppice on his forearms as he spoke, as if petting himself.
I walkedwith you this eleventh in the coppice,.
This was serviced in Kent in particular (Herefordshire hops tended to grow up poles of coppiced ash) by coppices of sweet chestnut cut on a 10-year rotation.
At the Dorset Coppice Group's tent I met a man who said he had given up work as an engineer when he fell in love with coppicing, the practice of cutting the growth of a tree, often hazel, down to the stump, and allowing new growth to achieve shoots of a desired thickness.
The gear was appropriate for slopping through slæp, fenn, myrr and slohtre (the disappointing origin of Upper and Lower Slaughter), or stomping through leah, hurst, holt and græfe, where trees were felled and coppiced and axes rang in the woods.
The wood had to be managed again, as it had been for centuries, by coppicing or pollarding the trees on regular cycles for fencing, wheels and furniture, thus encouraging the underwood, and by leaving some trees to grow tall for building timber.
Aside from a handful of ancient ash coppices, which Chalara may be about to see off, little remains of traditional British woodsmanship.
