How To Use Coppice In A Sentence
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The 50 members of the renewable energy growers' group say they need the money to determine whether their 16-year contracts to supply the Arbre plant at Eggborough with willow coppice are now worth anything.
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While harnessing wind energy and burning willow coppice may seem good ideas, in reality it is not much more than green window dressing.
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The coppice coppiced today is to be used to make a fence around the other caravan in the farmyard and I was looking for thicker branches no thinner than my skinny arms but definitely not as thick as Fred's.
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I recently observed several employees of Swindon Services hand-picking paper, plastic food containers, cans and bottles (some smashed) from hedges and coppices in the Shaw area.
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I, too, felt as if I was peering into a coppice.
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Utilization of starch reserves in naturally regenerating coppices was estimated to provide only a small proportion of the dry matter accumulated in new shoots.
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It is hoped that up to 148 acres of land will eventually be developed as fuel-efficient coppice over a six-year period.
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Since fuelwood is derived largely from small trees, coppice and lop and top, either new uses have to be found for surplus wood from these sources or else it is left standing or lying wasted in the forest.
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The second crop was of underwood and coppice, with felling taking place at intervals of seven years or so.
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Some farmers misunderstand what they are supposed to do such as, trimming a hedge when the plan said to coppice it.
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In an old coppiced wood, you may find the platforms on which the charcoal-makers heated the cut branches over several days, keeping out the oxygen to turn them into the precious carbon-rich fuel.
Shady past
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The impact of stem number left for each trunk on tree growth and productivity in a second rotation coppice of Eucalyptus urophylla was studied by cutting 5.5 years old plantation in previous rotation.
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Hearing footsteps approach the coppice, however, he was saved from answering his own question.
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They cleared some of the natural broadleaf woodland to make way for sheep pastures; they also coppiced or managed other parts of the woodland for timber and firewood.
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Mums and dads have been calling our newsdesk all week following our report on anti-social youths gathering at the village hall car park in Coppice Row.
Undefined
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What we're going to actually do with our coppice is unclear at the moment.
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The scrub provides a good habitat for song birds including a small area of hazel coppice.
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The others came back in the eventide, bearing with them foison of blue hare-bells, and telling joyously how they had found them anigh the coppice edge in such a place: and thereafter they were merry, and sang and talked the evening away, and showed
The Water of the Wondrous Isles
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It involves squelching about on the river bed at the low-water mark, hammering stakes and stowers of coppiced hazel into the mud, to be woven with branches to withstand three tides.
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I, too, felt as if I was peering into a coppice - a wood or thicket characterized by a dense, often tangled, underwood of stump shoots and suckers encouraged into being by the periodic cutting down of trees.
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A stream ran through it, and around it were fields, orchards and small woods, or coppices.
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They cleared some of the natural broadleaf woodland to make way for sheep pastures; they also coppiced or managed other parts of the woodland for timber and firewood.
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The political identification of these fallow pastures and the occasional once-coppiced wood they passed was not clear to either Sir Hereward or Mister Fitz, despite several attempts to ascertain said identification from the few travelers they had encountered since leaving the city of Rhool several days before.
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Wood for charcoal was generally coppiced, with the new shoots from a trunk cut right back to the ground every 15 years or so.
Shady past
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On one side of the coppice was a meadow which belonged to a fisherman named
The Birthright
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The mallee is the basis of the one industry that continues here: it is coppiced every few years to make eucalyptus oil.
Wildwood
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Its interest is that within it survive all the elements of a medieval forest: great timber trees, coppice woods, pollards, scrub, grassland and fen, deer and cattle, and a rabbit warren.
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The plan is to start producing synthetic gas from the willow coppice chips by Christmas and produce electricity at full capacity by Easter.
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This ability makes them candidates for management under a sort of "coppice" rotation.
4. Management
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At the brow of the hill, we were plunged into the crepuscular calm of the wood, emerging into the sunshine again in clearings where sweet chestnuts had been traditionally coppiced.
How to get back to nature when camping
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Thoughts of the elmy fields and the bistre furrows of Elstree and the tasselled coppices of Tours crowded Burton's brain; and he wrote:
The Life of Sir Richard Burton
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Instead of the majestic oak woods the path now runs through an oak coppice, where the trees have been regularly cut to produce young, straight trees which, in former days, would have been regularly coppiced.
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A programme of rotation, similar to that used by farmers, is used to divide the wood into sections which are coppiced in turn, offering different habitats for different creatures while one area is left to its own devices.
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In an attempt to use land not needed for food production, local farmers have been encouraged to plant willow coppices to be cut for chippings for a power station near Selby.
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The forest has been intensively coppiced, and multi-stemmed trees make up a large fraction of the present tree population.
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Woodland was no longer coppiced on the same scale to produce charcoal for fuel or timber for construction, so that land could be released for food.
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Much Wealden woodland has been managed as coppice, often in combination with standard trees, principally oak.
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Look for these multistemmed “coppice” trees next time you go strolling in an oak-hickory forest.
The Field Guide to Wildlife Habitats of the Eastern United States
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In Spain we know _montebaxos_, or coppice shrubs (as you might call them), and we know _tomillares_, or undergrowth; but in Corsica nature heaps these together with both hands, and the Corsican, in despair of separating them, calls them all _macchia_.
Two Sides of the Face Midwinter Tales
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Until about eighty years ago the whole oakwood had always been coppiced for the charcoal the tin smelters needed on Dartmoor.
Wildwood
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The Mirage itself looms above the coppice of trees like a giant open book.
Camo Girl
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They have all been harvested, re-planted, coppiced, grazed, undergrowth-burnt for hunting, managed for tan-bark, cut over for charcoal and rootled over by domestic pigs for pannage for more than a dozen feudal centuries.
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Hidden away in the English countryside, these simple shelters, made of coppiced hazel and willow covered in army-surplus canvas and other easily sourced natural materials, are part of a fine tradition of independent and ecologically savvy homemaking.
Junkitecture and the Jellyfish theatre
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While in coppice loud shrilleth and trilleth Hazár,
The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
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Three Salix integra ‘Hakuro Nishiki’ , passalongs from neighbors Mickey and Mae years ago, are coppiced in early spring, taking the stems down to about six inches off the ground.
Twiggy « Fairegarden
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It had been built beside woodland on the edge of the Hallowsmere Estate and was cloaked to the north and west by a canopy of oaks and beeches, sheltering a coppice of aspen, hawthorn and wild plum.
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On inspection they were found to be in poor condition and needed to be coppiced under the council's duty of care.
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If the wood has not been coppiced for some time, there will not be a stock of sun-adapted microspecies ready and waiting to colonise it.
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A small section of the woodland consists of hazel coppice.
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Not a great bustle at this hour on a soft, moist, melancholy November day, but always some evidence of human activity, a boy jog-trotting home with a bag on his shoulder and a dog at his heels, a carter making for the town with a load of coppice-wood, an old man leaning on his staff, two sturdy housewives of the Foregate bustling back from the town with their purchases, one of Hugh's officers riding back towards the bridge at a leisurely walk.
The Devil's Novice
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Dormice like the coppiced hazel woodland here — hence its other name: the hazel dormouse.
Times, Sunday Times
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A stream ran through it, and around it were fields, orchards and small woods, or coppices.
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Provided by Charlotte Moss The fountain at the center of the cloister is a place for meditation, surrounded by four domed seats made of coppiced chestnut wood above.
Paradise Regained
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Alley cropping (AC) is the practice of growing food crops in alleys between hedgerows of trees or shrubs which are regularly "coppiced," or severely pruned.
4: Multipurpose trees
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The coppice of trees seemed to get thicker as tall birches lined the road, replacing the old-fashioned houses.
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It is best to coppice the trees in the winter before the sap rises.
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Farm animals were excluded from these coppices by the digging of ditches and the setting up of hedges of quickthorn grown on banks.
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It used to be a vital part of the woodland economy, coppiced to make baskets and hurdles, thatching spars and sticks, charcoal and fagots.
A life less ordinary: Tobias Jones
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An abundance of coppice woods, known as spring woods, were required to provide charcoal, tan bark, fuel wood and timber.
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The neighbourhood, however, is interesting enough on account of the curious aqueducts for supplying the town with water, and the Mercede forest which, in D'Urville's opinion, might more justly be called a coppice, for it contains nothing but shrubs and ferns.
Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
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The tract thus characterised was about five or six acres in superficial extent; and surrounded by the same kind of coppice that covered most of the face of the country.
Bruin The Grand Bear Hunt
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You will soon have a thick, impenetrable hedge to enclose the fast-growing butterfly bush, Buddleia davidii (coppice it annually to promote flowers), or the heavenly blue blooms of enthusiastic ceanothus thrysiflorus.
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Its interest is that within it survive all the elements of a medieval forest: great timber trees, coppice woods, pollards, scrub, grassland and fen, deer and cattle, and a rabbit warren.
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This grove appeared of that kind usually termed a coppice or copse -- such as may be often observed in English parks.
Ran Away to Sea
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“Yes, Holly says that the coppice was my grandfather’s favourite spot.”
Swan Song
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Despite little reproduction by seed, N. antarctica plays an important role in the post-fire restoration of plant communities because of its ability to regenerate vegetatively from burned stumps by coppice and root suckers.
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If operated in conjunction with a coppiced willow tertiary treatment system, this would remove the need to dump sewage sludge into Tramore Bay.
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A stiff, insistent breeze was blowing as I came along, of excellent, healthy sea air, and there being no coppices, nor buildings nor obstacles of any kind on the very highest points, I made swift and unimpeded progress.
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We hike down a surprisingly gentle trail, passing through stunted pinons to a Ponderosa coppice and a fetchingly derelict bridge at river's edge.
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The Berber thuya is one of only two Mediterranean conifer species that can be transformed into coppice woodlands (the Canary pine species (Pinus canariensis), endemic to some Macronesian Atlantic islands is the other).
Mediterranean woodlands and forests
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It grows in coppices or clumps near or on the banks of rivers and creeks: many stems usually arise from a root,… and are covered with several barks or rinds the last of which being of a cinereous dirt color and very thin.
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This tree is extremely tolerant of atmospheric pollution, and when coppiced in spring, will reach a height of eight feet, producing hairy, soft leaves up to two feet across, in just one season.
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Woodsmen still make charcoal and coppice the hazel trees, and commoners still graze their animals on the land.
Times, Sunday Times
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The forest services are providing for a pilot project involving 47 hectares of short-rotation willow coppice.
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The ash is beyond dispute one of the most profitable coppice trees in Scotland; it grows freely and rapidly from stools in dampish glens.
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Kennet District Council has since released a statement saying it took action to coppice four self seeded sycamore trees, or remove branches, after receiving complaints from residents.
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Provided by Charlotte Moss The fountain at the center of the cloister is a place for meditation, surrounded by four domed seats made of coppiced chestnut wood above.
Paradise Regained
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Regrowth is fast and the coppice is allowed to grow until the poles are big enough to be used for crafts.
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Thus, if Hardy ‘leant upon a coppice gate,’ Rabinowitz is ‘Ensnared at the main gate’; Hardy's line ‘The tangled bine stems scored the sky’ is ghosted in Darkling as: ‘Scores of music I / Can't hear any more…’ .
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Volunteers will be encouraged to help coppice a large hedge, which will enable the group to create a new play area at the centre.
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It might be the edge of a coppice of trees which you can place in a fold in the distant hillside, or the spire of a church that you can put above a bush or tree at the waters edge.
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It used to be a vital part of the woodland economy, coppiced to make baskets and hurdles, thatching spars and sticks, charcoal and fagots.
A life less ordinary: Tobias Jones
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The pergolas and chairs are made of coppiced chestnut; the trellis-trained chenin blanc grapes produce 50 to 80 gallons of juice annually.
Paradise Regained
