#269 coppice

coppice- a thicket or dense growth of small trees or bushes, especially one regularly trimmed back to stumps to that a continual supply of small poles and firewood is obtained

C14 Old French copeiz, from couper to cut

Who chop in coppice wild and delve the russet soil.

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