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copse
/kɒps/
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What does copse mean?
noun
- A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level).
- Any thicket of small trees or shrubs, coppiced or not.
- Any woodland or woodlot.
More meanings (2)
verb
- To trim or cut.
- To plant and preserve.
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We could feel them clinging to our vessel like dogs worrying a wild boar in a copse.
The Indian pilot led us across his garden, which rather resembled a copse than a piece of cultivated ground.
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He swoops down, and when a short distance above the apparently innocent copse, circles round it two or three times.
On the left our troops were close to a copse, in which smoked the bonfires of our infantry who were felling wood.
The very task of penetrating this copse, so as to screen himself from sight, effectually removed the thin garment which concealed his nakedness.