0 an area of closely planted trees in which the trees are cut back regularly to provide wood:
1 to cut trees or bushes back in order to form a small, closely planted area
Even coppicing for baskets or charcoal might be a possibility.
The effect on the landscape is mainly confined to the increasingly unkempt woodlands and coppices.
My information is that the land referred to contains mainly small coppices of an inferior nature which are overgrown and, therefore, are pretty useless.
Was it not lucky that one of his coppices or woods was felled to provide for the building of anti-magnetic minesweepers in the last war?
A field close to my home which was coppiced had previously sustained overwintering sheep.
There is a vast amount of such material —large areas of unmanaged woodland that were ravaged in the two world wars; thinnings from commercial forestry; and old coppices.
The enclosure map of 50 years later show that little of the original woodland remained by then, other than a few coppices.
Specimens may grow as individual trunks, multitrunk masses, coppices, clonal colonies, or even more exotic tree complexes.
