COPSE

n. v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice. Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled. Goldsmith.

2.
v.

To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc. Halliwell.

3.
v.

To plant and preserve, as a copse. Swift.


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