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Definition of Copsing
1. copse [v] - See also: copse
Lexicographical Neighbors of Copsing
Literary usage of Copsing
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dendrologia: Or, A Treatise of Forest Trees, with Evelyn's Silva, Rev., Cor by James Mitchell, John Evelyn (1827)
"Verse, on copsing; I call harvesting Woodland produce. ... At every copsing,
there are all the oldest timbers to be felled, and in their fall they cripple ..."
2. Statistical Survey of the County of Armagh, with Observations on the Means by Charles Coote, Royal Dublin Society (1804)
"... might else be in the most vigorous oak forest, and by judicious cutting and
copsing would be a lasting and valuable property to the proprietor; but, ..."
3. Publications by English Dialect Society (1880)
"copsing (Dors.), mowing thistles, &c., in the field. Cord, a certain (very
variable) quantity of cut wood piled up; see Weights and Measures [p. 170]. ..."
4. The Prose Works of Jonathan Swift by Jonathan Swift, Temple Scott, William Edward Hartpole Lecky (1903)
"... or to enclose grounds; not one hedge, in a hundred, coming to maturity, for
want of skill and industry. The neglect of copsing woods cut down, ..."
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