coppiceとは 意味・読み方・使い方

別の表記

• coppis (obsolete)

語源

From 中期英語 copies, from Old French copeiz (“a cut-over forest”), from presumed Vulgar Latin *colpaticium (“having the quality of being cut”), from *colpāre (“to cut, strike”), from *colpus (“a blow”), from Latin colaphus (“a cuff, box on the ear”), from Ancient Greek κόλαφος (kólaphos, “a blow, slap”).

発音

• IPA: /ˈkɒpɪs/

名詞

coppice (plural coppices)

1. A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes, typically managed to promote growth and ensure a reliable supply of timber. See copse.
   • 1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC:

     […] belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards, […]

   • 1957, H.R. Schubert, History of the British Iron and Steel Industry, page 216:

     It was also enacted that all coppices or underwoods should be enclosed for periods from four to seven years after felling.

   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 118:

     At the time of the Norman Conquest, any village with woodland had one or more coppices of about 80 acres. […] Coppice trees are periodically cut to a level just above the ground. […] Hazel forms most English coppices, but there are also coppices of alder, oak, wych elm and willow.

同意語

• copse

派生語

• coppice mining bee
• copse

動詞

coppice (third-person singular simple present coppices, present participle coppicing, simple past and past participle coppiced)

1. (transitive) To manage (a wooded area) sustainably, as a coppice, by periodically cutting back woody plants to promote new growth.

   Her plan to coppice the woods should keep her self-sufficient in fuel indefinitely.

2. (intransitive) To sprout from the stump.

   Few conifer species can coppice.

派生語

• coppicer
• recoppice

参照

• Douglas Harper (2001–2025), “coppice”, in Online Etymology Dictionary. [see also its linking entry coup]