How To Use coppice In A Sentence
- The forest services are providing for a pilot project involving 47 hectares of short-rotation willow coppice.
- Its interest is that within it survive all the elements of a medieval forest: great timber trees, coppice woods, pollards, scrub, grassland and fen, deer and cattle, and a rabbit warren.
- You will soon have a thick, impenetrable hedge to enclose the fast-growing butterfly bush, Buddleia davidii (coppice it annually to promote flowers), or the heavenly blue blooms of enthusiastic ceanothus thrysiflorus.
- The tract thus characterised was about five or six acres in superficial extent; and surrounded by the same kind of coppice that covered most of the face of the country. Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt
- The neighbourhood, however, is interesting enough on account of the curious aqueducts for supplying the town with water, and the Mercede forest which, in D'Urville's opinion, might more justly be called a coppice, for it contains nothing but shrubs and ferns. Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
- An abundance of coppice woods, known as spring woods, were required to provide charcoal, tan bark, fuel wood and timber.
- It used to be a vital part of the woodland economy, coppiced to make baskets and hurdles, thatching spars and sticks, charcoal and fagots. A life less ordinary: Tobias Jones
- Farm animals were excluded from these coppices by the digging of ditches and the setting up of hedges of quickthorn grown on banks.
- It is best to coppice the trees in the winter before the sap rises.
- The coppice of trees seemed to get thicker as tall birches lined the road, replacing the old-fashioned houses.
