ˈcopsewood, ˈcoppice-wood
1. A copse. arch. or Obs.
| α 1543 Act 35 Hen. VIII, c. 17 §1 In and upon all..Woods commonlie called Coppieswoods and Underwoods. 1577 B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. ii. (1586) 105 Coppisse Woodes, that are continually to be feld. 1601 Holland Pliny I. 380 There be also of Date trees coppey woods, which they vse to fell and cut at certaine times. 1626 Bacon Sylva v. §425 To make hasty Growing Coppice-Woods. 1790 Ambler Reports 131 All coppice woods are liable to tithes. 1811 Pinkerton Petral. II. 543 The crater being filled with coppice woods and pools of water. |
| β 1602 Carew Cornwall (J.), The East quarters of the shire are not destitute of copse woods. 1732 Mrs. Delany Corr. I. 376 A little copsewood which is cut into vistas and serpentine walks. 1830 Scott Demonol. v. 162 Sequestered valleys, and dim copsewoods. |
2. The low trees and underwood of a copse.
| α 1809 Bawdwen Domesday Bk. 7 There is coppice wood there. 1872 Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lakes (1879) 20 After threading through some coppice-wood. |
| β 1664 Evelyn Sylva iii. §16 (R.) Generally copps-wood should be cut close. 1884 Queen Victoria More Leaves 288 Trees and copsewood sprinkled about. |
3. attrib., as
copsewood oak.
| 1806 Forsyth Beauties Scot. IV. 489 There is..one considerable tract of copsewood-oak. |
Hence
ˈcopsewooded ppl. a.| 1862 J. Grant Capt. of Guard liv, In many a copsewooded glen. |