Copse
[kɒps] or [kɑps]
Definition
(n.) A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice.
(v. t.) To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc.
(v. t.) To plant and preserve, as a copse.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Grove (of small trees or shrubs), thicket.
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Definition
n. a wood of small growth for periodical cutting.—n. Copse′wood.—adj. Cop′sy.
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Examples
- And root up the copse? Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- A portion of the copse was now to clear. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Birds began singing in brake and copse: birds were faithful to their mates; birds were emblems of love. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- The copse shall be firewood ere five years elapse. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I hear the water fret over its stony bed in Hollow's Copse as distinctly as if it ran below the churchyard wall. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- Just then, there emerged from a near copse two goats and a little kid, by the mother's side; they began to browze the herbage of the hill. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- There was plough-land and pasture, and copses of bare trees, copses of bushes, and homesteads naked and work-bare. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
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