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Copse   Listen
noun
Copse  n.  A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice. "Near yonder copse where once the garden smiled."


verb
Copse  v. t.  
1.
To trim or cut; said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc.
2.
To plant and preserve, as a copse.





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"Copse" Quotes from Famous Books



... wheel were in sight before he thought of its being near. Then he began to consider what errand he could make; none occurred to him. He reined his horse up to a slow walk, and fell into a reverie,—so deep a one that he did not see what he might have seen had he looked attentively into a copse of poplars on a high bank close to his road,—two young girls sitting on the ground peeling slender willow stems for baskets. It was Annette Gaspard and Victorine; and at the sound of a horse's feet they both leaned forward and looked down into ...
— Between Whiles • Helen Hunt Jackson
... a copse a mighty boar there lay, For through the boughs the wet winds never blew, Nor lit the bright sun on it with his ray, Nor rain might pierce the woven branches through, But leaves had fallen deep the lair to strew: Then questing of the hounds and ...
— Helen of Troy • Andrew Lang
... notice it, but were clearly preparing terrible anti-Socialist posers for me—began to fade away and my dream grew thin, and I awoke (as I thought) to find myself lying on a strip of wayside waste by an oak copse just outside ...
— A Dream of John Ball, A King's Lesson • William Morris
... night remained unbroken. Then I turned back across the yard, taking care that none observed me, and made my way to a small grove of fir trees that lay in the rear of the trading house and some distance to the right of the factor's residence. In the heart of the copse was a rude wooden bench, built some years before by the factor's orders. I made my way to it over the frozen snow crust, and sat ...
— The Cryptogram - A Story of Northwest Canada • William Murray Graydon
... naturally, and he knew that the correct and courageous thing to do was to ignore them as if they did not exist. But anonymous letters, as he understood them, were brought by the postman and placed on the breakfast table with the morning mail; they weren't planted in the middle of a lonely copse by gentlemen ...
— The Monk of Hambleton • Armstrong Livingston


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