11 example sentences using coppice.
Coppice used in a sentence
Coppice in a sentence as a noun
The sunlight dances in a coppice of aspen and leaves of trees above.
You could always buy some cheap land somewhere, start a coppice and produce charcoal that you bury.
You can safely coppice a willow tree any time of year and it will vigorously re-sprout.
The hazel and ash are coppiced approximately every 20-25 years to yield poles.
Coppicing would not be useful for that, unless you're heavily processing the coppiced wood first?
I believe the OP was referencing the city workers who coppiced the tree, not the vandals who forced them to do so...
I was using the word "coppice" in jest, by juxtaposing the image of complete removal-by-force with the real meaning.
We can obviously not sustain a high-tech industrial society on coppice forests and line plantings alone.
Isn't that like saying "I doubt anyone here has ever seen a real ladder" because ladders aren't made out of coppiced staves but instead are formed from aluminium?
Half an acre of coppiced firewood species like Black Locust can provide the majority of the annual heating needs for a modest, well-insulated home forever.
Almost immediately about a hundred new trunks sprouted from the stump and roots, and it was what I considered a handsome shrubbery for a year or so before my wife made me coppice the whole thing out of the ground with axe and pickup truck.