coppicing, vbl. n.
(ˈkɒpɪsɪŋ)
[f. coppice n.]
a. Coppice-wood.
| 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 attrib.
| 1880 C. R. Markham Peruv. 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. Ibid. 395 Uprooting, coppicing, and thinning. 1922 Schlich Man. Forestry (ed. 4) I. 236 Methods of thinning, coppicing, &c. 1952 Oxf. Jun. 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. |