Meanings
verb
- gerundparticiplepresentpresent participle and gerund of coppice
nouncoppicing (countable and uncountable, plural coppicings)
plural coppicings
- countableuncountableThe act of cutting back a woody plant to promote new growth.
Coppicing provides a perpetual supply of small timber for village craftsmen, […] The art of coppicing was known to late Stone Age Britons who used the poles for causeways which, in wet ground, have survived to the present day.
1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 118
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