Definition of Coppicing

1. Verb. (present participle of coppice) ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Coppicing

1. coppice [v] - See also: coppice

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coppicing

coppersmith
coppersmithies
coppersmithing
coppersmiths
coppersmithy
copperware
copperwork
copperworks
copperworm
copperworms
coppery
coppice
coppice regeneration
coppiced
coppices
coppicing (current term)
coppies
coppin
copping
copping out
coppins
coppish
copple
coppled
copples
copplestone
copplestones
coppra
coppras
coppy

Literary usage of Coppicing

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Peruvian Bark: A Popular Account of the Introduction of Chinchona by Clements Robert Markham (1880)
"Dr. King has suggested that it may pay best to take a crop of bark from a tree by mossing and then to subject it to coppicing. These questions will not be ..."

2. Rehabilitation of Degraded Tropical Forest Ecosystems: Workshop Proceedings ...by Shigeo Kobayashi by Shigeo Kobayashi (2001)
"The main objective was to determine the effects of different thinning methods on coppicing ability of 17-year-old teak leading to two canopy levels. ..."

3. Forestry and Forest Products: Prize Essays of the Edinburgh International by Hugh Robert Mill, John Rattray (1885)
"coppicing.—This method of cutting down is condemned by many, but there are ... In coppicing there is the advantage of obtaining quill bark ; and the higher ..."

4. Proceedings of the American Pharmaceutical Association at the Annual Meeting by American Pharmaceutical Association, National Pharmaceutical Convention, American Pharmaceutical Association Meeting (1886)
"coppicing.—Six years old is considered the best age to coppice trees, and between March and May the favorite months, while it is considered best to leave ..."

5. The Indian Forester; a Quarterly Magazine of Forestry (1880)
"coppicing Cinchona Plants.—The Commissioner of the Nil- geris was recently directed to arrange for coppicing experiments at all the Government Cinchona ..."

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