copsen.

Brit.

/kɒps/, U.S.

/kɑps/

Forms: 1500s–1700s cops, 1600s–1700s copps, 1600s copp'ce, cop'se, copce, 1500s– copse.

Etymology: 16th cent. cops , copps , syncopated form of copys, coppis coppice n. Like copys, also, sometimes dialectally treated as a plural. The phonetic reduction of Middle English copys to modern copse was quite regular: compare plurals such as crops , Middle English croppes , croppis , croppys , and such words as else , once , in Middle English elles , -is , -ys , ones , -is , -ys . The retention of copys , coppice n., beside cops , copse n., is owing to special circumstances.

a. = coppice n.; a thicket of small trees or underwood periodically cut for economic purposes.

ΘΚΠ

the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued > coppice or grove

hurst822

grove889

wood bough?c1225

wood lay?c1225

wood lind?c1225

wood rise?c1225

spring1396

firth?a1400

berwec1440

spring?c1475

grovet1504

coppice1538

copsewood1543

sherwood1562

hewt1575

copse1578

grove-crop1582

berrie1591

low wood1591

spinney1597

spinet1604

spring wood1607

roughet1616

oart1690

toft1706

under-grove1731

bosket1737

busket1803

1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxxix. 57 Agrimonie groweth..in hedges and Copses.

1587 G. Turberville Tragicall Tales f. 66 There lay he close in wayte within the cops.

a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 26 Ten loads of wood out of my Copps.

1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 21 in Justa Edouardo King The willows and the hasil-copses green.

1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 137 Near yonder copse where once the garden smil'd.

1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. (1878) xiii. 248 My path lying through the fields and copses.

β. as plural, whence rarely an erroneous singular cop.1725 London Gaz. No. 6420/2 Young Oaken Timber Trees, growing in Hedge-Rows, Copps, and other Parts of the..Estate.1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Woodcock They remain all the Day..under the Leaves and amongst Cops.1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Bird The Birds..rest upon some tall Trees, if there are any, or on the Top of Cops.1877 Mackay Let. in Life (1890) iii. 56 Imagine a forest of lofty slender trees with a cop between of thorny creepers.

b. collectively. = copsewood n. 2; loosely, the underwood of a wood or forest.

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

1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 183 Where those tow'ring Oaks Above the humble copse aspiring rise.

1814 W. Scott Waverley I. ix. 115 A deep and wooded dell, from the copse of which arose a massive but ruinous tower.

1827 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 11 The transplanting of Copse or Underwood.

1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine ix. 344 Deep jungles of copse.

2. transferred and figurative.

ΚΠ

1633 G. Herbert Pilgrimage in Temple ii So to cares cops I came, and there got through, With much ado.

a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) II. 65 If I Have bristlie haire, Or my head bald, or beard in Cop'ses grow.

Compounds

C1. General attributive. Also copsewood n.

copse-shooting n.

ΚΠ

1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 324/2 In copse-shooting it is advisable to know both who and where are your companions.

copse-ware n.

ΚΠ

1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders I. iii. 33 Mr. George Melbury, the timber, bark and copse-ware merchant.

C2.

copse-clad adj.

ΚΠ

1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 9 Through copse-clad vallies.

1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District (1879) 17 Low copse-clad hills.

copse-covered adj.

ΚΠ

1812 Edinb. Rev. 20 293 Rough copse-covered cliffs.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

copsecopsv.¹

Brit.

/kɒps/, U.S.

/kɑps/

Etymology: apparently < cops n.; but possibly < copse n.

transitive. To fasten or shut up; to confine, enclose. Also figurative.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > restrict in free action [verb (transitive)]

bindc1200

hamper?a1366

chain1377

coarctc1400

prison?a1425

tether?a1505

fetter1526

imprisona1533

strait1533

swaddle1539

measure1560

shacklea1568

to tie up1570

manacle1577

straitena1586

hopple1586

immew16..

scant1600

cabina1616

criba1616

trammela1616

copse1617

cramp1625

cloister1627

incarcerate1640

hidebind1642

strait-lace1662

perstringe1679

hough-band1688

cabin1780

pin1795

strait jacket1814

peg1832

befetter1837

to tie the hands of1866

corset1935

society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > restrict or limit [verb (transitive)] > in free action

bind971

hamper?a1366

chain1377

coarctc1400

prison?a1425

tether?a1505

fetter1526

imprisona1533

strait1533

swaddle1539

measure1560

shacklea1568

to tie up1570

manacle1577

straitena1586

hopple1586

immew16..

scant1600

cabina1616

criba1616

trammela1616

copse1617

cramp1625

cloister1627

incarcerate1640

hidebind1642

to box up1659

strait-lace1662

perstringe1679

hough-band1688

cabin1780

pin1795

strait jacket1814

peg1832

befetter1837

to tie the hands of1866

hog-tie1924

corset1935

1617 J. Hales Serm. Oxf. 19 Not to suffer your labours to bee copst and mued vp within the poverty of some pretended method.

1657 A. Farindon XXX. Serm. (1672) I. 146 Why should we paraphrase Mercy..and draw our limitations as it were to copse her up and confine her?

1657 A. Farindon XXX. Serm. ii. xx. 439 Nature it self hath cops'd and bound us in from flying out.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

copsev.²

Brit.

/kɒps/, U.S.

/kɑps/

Etymology: < copse n.

1. transitive. To treat as copse-wood; to make a copse of; ‘to preserve underwood’ (Johnson).

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [verb (transitive)] > coppice

coppicea1552

copse1575

1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xxxi. 82 If he chance to finde any little hewtes or springes priuily copsed within the thicke, where the Harte may feede by night.

1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1679) 12 By Copsing the starvelings in the places where they are newly sown.

1735 J. Swift Humble Addr. to Parl. in Wks. IV. 240 The Neglect of copsing Woods cut down, hath likewise been of very evil Consequences.

1827 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 521 A certain proportion of the Forest Trees had been cut over, or copsed, in order to improve the closeness of the skreen at bottom.

1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 128 Nor can they when they have been copsed Grow up again.

2. To clothe with a copse.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > produce vegetation [verb (transitive)] > cover with vegetation > wood

copse1755

1755 T. Amory Mem. Ladies 176 Low birch, and hazle-trees, which copse the sides of Carlvay loch.

1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 154 Here the brae glows with..budding broom,—there copsed with grey willows and alders.

Derivatives

copsed adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > relating to copse, thicket, or undergrowth

busky1570

thicketed?1624

thickety1640

copsy1757

copsed1782

underwooded1811

coppiced1832

shawy1848

copsewooded1862

1782 W. Stevenson Hymn to Deity 14 Thick-cops'd hills.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

> see also

also refers to : copscopsen.

n.1578

v.¹1617

v.²1575

单词	copse
释义	copsen. Brit. /kɒps/, U.S. /kɑps/ Forms: 1500s–1700s cops, 1600s–1700s copps, 1600s copp'ce, cop'se, copce, 1500s– copse. Etymology: 16th cent. cops , copps , syncopated form of copys, coppis coppice n. Like copys, also, sometimes dialectally treated as a plural. The phonetic reduction of Middle English copys to modern copse was quite regular: compare plurals such as crops , Middle English croppes , croppis , croppys , and such words as else , once , in Middle English elles , -is , -ys , ones , -is , -ys . The retention of copys , coppice n., beside cops , copse n., is owing to special circumstances. 1. a. = coppice n.; a thicket of small trees or underwood periodically cut for economic purposes. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > by growth or development > defined by habit > tree or woody plant > wood or assemblage of trees or shrubs > [noun] > planted, cultivated, or valued > coppice or grove hurst822 grove889 wood bough?c1225 wood lay?c1225 wood lind?c1225 wood rise?c1225 spring1396 firth?a1400 berwec1440 spring?c1475 grovet1504 coppice1538 copsewood1543 sherwood1562 hewt1575 copse1578 grove-crop1582 berrie1591 low wood1591 spinney1597 spinet1604 spring wood1607 roughet1616 oart1690 toft1706 under-grove1731 bosket1737 busket1803 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball i. xxxix. 57 Agrimonie groweth..in hedges and Copses. 1587 G. Turberville Tragicall Tales f. 66 There lay he close in wayte within the cops. a1626 F. Bacon Elements Common Lawes (1630) 26 Ten loads of wood out of my Copps. 1638 J. Milton Lycidas in Obsequies 21 in Justa Edouardo King The willows and the hasil-copses green. 1770 O. Goldsmith Deserted Village 137 Near yonder copse where once the garden smil'd. 1866 G. MacDonald Ann. Quiet Neighb. (1878) xiii. 248 My path lying through the fields and copses. β. as plural, whence rarely an erroneous singular cop.1725 London Gaz. No. 6420/2 Young Oaken Timber Trees, growing in Hedge-Rows, Copps, and other Parts of the..Estate.1725 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Œconomique at Woodcock They remain all the Day..under the Leaves and amongst Cops.1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Bird The Birds..rest upon some tall Trees, if there are any, or on the Top of Cops.1877 Mackay Let. in Life (1890) iii. 56 Imagine a forest of lofty slender trees with a cop between of thorny creepers. b. collectively. = copsewood n. 2; loosely, the underwood of a wood or forest. 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 1735 W. Somervile Chace ii. 183 Where those tow'ring Oaks Above the humble copse aspiring rise. 1814 W. Scott Waverley I. ix. 115 A deep and wooded dell, from the copse of which arose a massive but ruinous tower. View more context for this quotation 1827 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 11 The transplanting of Copse or Underwood. 1856 A. P. Stanley Sinai & Palestine ix. 344 Deep jungles of copse. 2. transferred and figurative. ΚΠ 1633 G. Herbert Pilgrimage in Temple ii So to cares cops I came, and there got through, With much ado. a1657 G. Daniel Poems (1878) II. 65 If I Have bristlie haire, Or my head bald, or beard in Cop'ses grow. Compounds C1. General attributive. Also copsewood n. copse-shooting n. ΚΠ 1883 Harper's Mag. Jan. 324/2 In copse-shooting it is advisable to know both who and where are your companions. copse-ware n. ΚΠ 1887 T. Hardy Woodlanders I. iii. 33 Mr. George Melbury, the timber, bark and copse-ware merchant. C2. copse-clad adj. ΚΠ 1818 J. Keats Endymion i. 9 Through copse-clad vallies. 1872 H. I. Jenkinson Guide Eng. Lake District (1879) 17 Low copse-clad hills. copse-covered adj. ΚΠ 1812 Edinb. Rev. 20 293 Rough copse-covered cliffs. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). copsecopsv.¹ Brit. /kɒps/, U.S. /kɑps/ Etymology: apparently < cops n.; but possibly < copse n. transitive. To fasten or shut up; to confine, enclose. Also figurative. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > hindrance > restriction of free action > restrict in free action [verb (transitive)] bindc1200 hamper?a1366 chain1377 coarctc1400 prison?a1425 tether?a1505 fetter1526 imprisona1533 strait1533 swaddle1539 measure1560 shacklea1568 to tie up1570 manacle1577 straitena1586 hopple1586 immew16.. scant1600 cabina1616 criba1616 trammela1616 copse1617 cramp1625 cloister1627 incarcerate1640 hidebind1642 strait-lace1662 perstringe1679 hough-band1688 cabin1780 pin1795 strait jacket1814 peg1832 befetter1837 to tie the hands of1866 corset1935 society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restriction or limitation > restrict or limit [verb (transitive)] > in free action bind971 hamper?a1366 chain1377 coarctc1400 prison?a1425 tether?a1505 fetter1526 imprisona1533 strait1533 swaddle1539 measure1560 shacklea1568 to tie up1570 manacle1577 straitena1586 hopple1586 immew16.. scant1600 cabina1616 criba1616 trammela1616 copse1617 cramp1625 cloister1627 incarcerate1640 hidebind1642 to box up1659 strait-lace1662 perstringe1679 hough-band1688 cabin1780 pin1795 strait jacket1814 peg1832 befetter1837 to tie the hands of1866 hog-tie1924 corset1935 1617 J. Hales Serm. Oxf. 19 Not to suffer your labours to bee copst and mued vp within the poverty of some pretended method. 1657 A. Farindon XXX. Serm. (1672) I. 146 Why should we paraphrase Mercy..and draw our limitations as it were to copse her up and confine her? 1657 A. Farindon XXX. Serm. ii. xx. 439 Nature it self hath cops'd and bound us in from flying out. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). copsev.² Brit. /kɒps/, U.S. /kɑps/ Etymology: < copse n. 1. transitive. To treat as copse-wood; to make a copse of; ‘to preserve underwood’ (Johnson). ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [verb (transitive)] > coppice coppicea1552 copse1575 1575 G. Gascoigne Noble Arte Venerie xxxi. 82 If he chance to finde any little hewtes or springes priuily copsed within the thicke, where the Harte may feede by night. 1664 J. Evelyn Sylva (1679) 12 By Copsing the starvelings in the places where they are newly sown. 1735 J. Swift Humble Addr. to Parl. in Wks. IV. 240 The Neglect of copsing Woods cut down, hath likewise been of very evil Consequences. 1827 H. Steuart Planter's Guide (1828) 521 A certain proportion of the Forest Trees had been cut over, or copsed, in order to improve the closeness of the skreen at bottom. 1855 R. C. Singleton tr. Virgil Georgics ii, in tr. Virgil Wks. I. 128 Nor can they when they have been copsed Grow up again. 2. To clothe with a copse. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > produce vegetation [verb (transitive)] > cover with vegetation > wood copse1755 1755 T. Amory Mem. Ladies 176 Low birch, and hazle-trees, which copse the sides of Carlvay loch. 1853 G. Johnston Terra Lindisfarnensis I. 154 Here the brae glows with..budding broom,—there copsed with grey willows and alders. Derivatives copsed adj. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > fertile land or place > land with vegetation > [adjective] > wooded > relating to copse, thicket, or undergrowth busky1570 thicketed?1624 thickety1640 copsy1757 copsed1782 underwooded1811 coppiced1832 shawy1848 copsewooded1862 1782 W. Stevenson Hymn to Deity 14 Thick-cops'd hills. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : copscopsen. < n.1578v.¹1617v.²1575 see also
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copsen.

Compounds

copsecopsv.1

copsev.2

Derivatives

> see also

copsecopsv.¹

copsev.²