单词 | coppicing |
释义 | coppicingn. a. Coppice-wood. ΘΚΠ 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 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 attributive. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > coppicing coppicing1880 coppice system1882 encoppicement1935 1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian 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. 1880 C. R. Markham Peruvian Bark 395 Uprooting, coppicing, and thinning. 1922 W. Schlich Man. Forestry (ed. 4) I. 236 Methods of thinning, coppicing, &c. 1952 Oxf. Junior 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. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1880 |
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