(n.) A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes. See Copse.
Example Sentences:
(1) Ten of the 13 species that depend on specific habitats - heathland, coppices, woodland glades, bracken, hedgerows and so on - have fared better on sites where farmers had agreed to tend the landscape with wildlife in mind.
(2) Set on the side of a shallow green valley of fields, coppices and orchards, Rakinice is an astonishingly beautiful spot, but you cannot eat the scenery.
(3) Each coppice stool, possessing a girth that suggested medieval origin, had sent up three to five slender stems with a giant beanstalk thrust 50 or 60 feet high.
(4) Who cares whether a tree is a hunched and fissured coppiced oak, worked by people for centuries, or a sapling planted beside a slip-road with a rabbit guard around it?
(5) In a coppice, under conditions of low grass availability and high stocking rate (300 ewes.ha-1) the time spent eating bushes reaches 60% of grazing time and increases with flock size (stocking rates of 50 ewes.ha-1 vs 150 ewes.ha-1).
(6) Most indigenous trees in Africa coppice when cut, their stumps looking like tangled weeds and valueless scrub to the unknowing eye.
(7) Kevin Baskill, the interim head of Coppice primary school in Chigwell, Essex, said a substantial number of children at his school were bussed from elsewhere in the same local authority, Redbridge, because of the uneven demand for places.
(8) It involves activities such as restoring heathland, burning brash – cuttings left over from wood management – digging ditches, path widening, coppicing, scrub clearance, fence removal and pond maintenance.
(9) By coppicing trees, for example, they let in more light, which allows other species to thrive.
(10) These sites could be linked to sustainable forestry and techniques, notably coppicing.
(11) Since 2009, Sall has practised farmer-managed natural regeneration (FMNR), protecting wildlings and pruning stumps that coppice so they rapidly grow or regrow into trees.
(12) It is now managed by Suffolk Wildlife Trust , but it has been under continuous coppice management since 1252 and you can still buy your firewood and hazel products near the entrance.
(13) Some of the coppiced ash "stools" are thought to be over 1,000 years old.
(14) Wildlife experts back the return of beavers, which manage the landscape by coppicing trees and building dams, because of the benefits for flood prevention, water quality and wildlife, but farmers are among those who have raised concerns over their impact.
(15) It's full of a weird selection of fungi in the autumn and stunning bare coppiced trees in winter.
(16) The tree had last been coppiced , or cut back to its base, perhaps 100 years before, and the stool was now rather like a hollowed-out cauldron.
(17) "I can put ministers on the spot, I think," he says self-deprecatingly, searching his rucksack for a copy of Hansard and his 1985 private members bill, during a rest-stop in an ancient patch of silver birch, planted as coppice for making textile mill bobbins.
Fuel
Definition:
(n.) Any matter used to produce heat by burning; that which feeds fire; combustible matter used for fires, as wood, coal, peat, etc.
(n.) Anything that serves to feed or increase passion or excitement.
(v. t.) To feed with fuel.
(v. t.) To store or furnish with fuel or firing.
Example Sentences:
(1) But when he speaks, the crowds who have come together to make a stand against government corruption and soaring fuel prices cheer wildly.
(2) First, it has diverted grain away from food for fuel, with over a third of US corn now used to produce ethanol and about half of vegetable oils in the EU going towards the production of biodiesel.
(3) The way we are going to pay for that is by making the rules the same for people who go into care homes as for people who get care at their home, and by means-testing the winter fuel payment, which currently isn’t.” Hunt said the plan showed the Conservatives were capable of making difficult choices.
(4) Although the relative contributions of different fuels varies greatly in different organisms, in none is there a simple reliance on stored ATP.
(5) It did the job of triggering growth, but it also fueled real-estate speculation, similar to what was going on in the mid-2000s here.” Slowing economic growth may be another concern.
(6) Photograph: AP Reasons for wavering • State relies on coal-fired electricity • Poor prospects for wind power • Conservative Democrat • Represents conservative district in conservative state and was elected on narrow margins Campaign support from fossil fuel interests in 2008 • $93,743 G K Butterfield (North Carolina) GK Butterfield, North Carolina.
(7) Biomass and crops for animals are as damaging as [burning] fossil fuels.” The recommendation follows advice last year that a vegetarian diet was better for the planet from Lord Nicholas Stern , former adviser to the Labour government on the economics of climate change.
(8) Critics of wind power peddle the same old myths about investment in new energy sources adding to families' fuel bills , preferring to pick a fight with people concerned about the environment, than stand up to vested interests in the energy industry, for the hard-pressed families and pensioners being ripped off by the energy giants.
(9) The figures, published in the company’s annual report , triggered immediate anger from fuel poverty campaigners who noted that energy suppliers had just been rapped over the knuckles by the Competition and Markets Authority (CMA) for overcharging .
(10) This is triggered not so much by climate change but the cause of global warming itself: the burning of fossil fuels both inside and outside the home, says Farrar.
(11) Pensioners, like those in receipt of long-term social welfare payments or those who can prove they cannot provide their heating needs during winter, are entitled to a means-tested weekly winter fuel allowance of €20 (£ 14.54) per household.
(12) Humans who lack availability of carbohydrate fuels may provide important models for the study of physiological control mechanisms.
(13) As judged by the evolution of 14CO2, rates of oxidation of individual fuels by tissues of the conceptus appeared to be conditioned by ambient fuel concentrations rather than the dietary status of the mother.
(14) This dependence reflects the need of glucose as a fuel.
(15) Called arctic packs, the insulating material consists of crude oil or diesel fuel.
(16) It combined regular interviews with a study of the impact on each household of benefit changes, pension reforms, social care cuts and fuel price increases.
(17) Without action today, the winter fuel payment would have decreased in value this coming winter.
(18) Two years later, the Guardian could point to reforms that owed much to what Ashley called his "bloody-mindedness" in five areas: non-disclosure of victims' names in rape cases; the rights of battered wives; the ending of fuel disconnections for elderly people; a royal commission on the legal profession; and civil liability for damages such as those due to thalidomide victims.
(19) These data suggest that fasting mobilizes maternal fuel stores but that these stores are not effectively used by the placenta or transported to the fetus for storage.
(20) Because the fossil fuel industry faces a closing pincers.