noun
definition
A thicket of small trees or shrubs.
verb
definition
To trim or cut.
definition
To plant and preserve.
Examples of copse in a Sentence
I have seen bricks amid the oak copse there.
He stayed with them and was shocked when the car left the road, bumping into a secluded copse, frightening the girl.
As the track begins to curve to the left a small path enters a small copse to the left.
On the left our troops were close to a copse, in which smoked the bonfires of our infantry who were felling wood.
French windows lead from the room into the garden at the far end of which is a wooded copse.
A small stream overhung with copse and underwood, runs through, forming a most romantic and sylvan walk.
The National Forest Company is donating 20 (Plant a Tree) schemes to create a carriage drivers copse at Catton Park.
As soon as I arrived my attention had been grabbed by a racket coming from a nearby copse.
Set in a beautiful oak copse divided between two parks amidst the shy red squirrels.
The French had attacked the men collecting wood in the copse.
But at that moment the French who were attacking, suddenly and without any apparent reason, ran back and disappeared from the outskirts, and Russian sharpshooters showed themselves in the copse.
It was at the end of a village that stretched along the highroad in the midst of a young copse in which were a few fir trees.
By the way the hunt approached and receded, by the cries of the dogs whose notes were familiar to him, by the way the voices of the huntsmen approached, receded, and rose, he realized what was happening at the copse.
Nicholas asked himself as the wolf approached him coming from the copse.
This plant runs in a border so quickly as soon to become a troublesome weed, but is fine when allowed to run wild in a rough shrubbery or copse, where it may bloom with the Foxglove.
The tree vegetation consists rather of jungle or copse than forest, abounding in game which is preserved by the native chiefs.
There is also a considerable cultivation of wood, especially of fir and copse, while tobacco plantations are found at Nykerk and Wageningen.
The gently sloping gardens - not suitable for the elderly or toddlers, include a copse, lawns, flower meadow and formal gardens.
We crossed the track, and went through the wide hedge gap along the wide grass path passing a young copse on our right.
We were moored near a little copse, which was good for hunting.
Every species of snail, every ancient copse that is lost, is lost forever.
At the bottom end of the bed, beside the birch copse, the colors are at the hot end of the scale.
In the butterfly copse (near the Waterworks Road) (TQ 209 063) a Magpie Moth made a brief appearance.
They hold their own, however, in a copse, or a rough open shrubbery among the coarsest vegetation, and the silky seeds of some kinds persist, with a pretty effect, far into the winter.