(n.) A wood of small growth; a thicket of brushwood. See Coppice.
(v. t.) To trim or cut; -- said of small trees, brushwood, tufts of grass, etc.
(v. t.) To plant and preserve, as a copse.
Example Sentences:
(1) He quoted figures from the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust showing that shoots create or maintain 7,000 hectares of hedgerows and 100,000 hectares of copses.
(2) Last year's sites, Herridge's and Broom copses, are home to the silver-washed fritillary ( Argynnis paphia ), white admiral ( Limenitis camilla ) and scarlet tiger moth ( Callimorpha dominula ), and Sulham woods is inhabited by priority conservation species including the white-letter hairstreak ( Satyrium w-album ) and rare moths.
(3) In a copse of trees behind the lines, a lone bird sang.
(4) Whatever the weather, the beaters would drive the bred pheasants from their woodland home to a prepared unharvested patch of kale, just short of a high wooded copse.
(5) The Tarkine’s ancient copses, which form the biggest rainforest in Australia, are cut through with a patchwork of logged forests.
(6) It was a landscape sculpted by humans but there were no straight lines, and a kind of alchemy in the mix of fields, hedgerows, copses; it had evolved at a gentle pace, and plants and animals survived alongside our exploitation of its fertility.
(7) Now I can walk unencumbered, paper map and compass in my backpack, every so often checking my phone, where a pink arrow moves precisely across that familiar Explorer landscape, not only reassuring me that I am where I thought I was but providing quick answers to questions such as, “Is that distant clump of trees a copse, or hiding a horse-pond?” and “Where exactly should I plunge into this chest-high bracken to find this ruddy burial chamber?” The result is more time to think and daydream as I walk, and an even closer relationship with the place I am exploring.
(8) The main 10-hectare (25-acre) area to be treated – Herridge's and Broom copses near Pangbourne – are partly privately owned and and partly public woodland managed by the commission.
(9) Once it’s done it’s – pardon my French – buggered for ever.” The beech copses that hugged the hillsides smelt of foxes and were filled with pheasants.
(10) Initial Russian reports had said that president's Tupulov plane attempted to land three times - and that on its fourth attempt it clipped a copse of trees between 500 to 700 metres short of the runway, and immediately broke up.
(11) And it is quite a journey, a cross-section of Sussex, cutting through the South Downs and the Weald, past fields, copses, sheep, cows and tractors, starlings and stately homes.
(12) But a spokesman said they would not spray between 3 and 4.30pm because school-run traffic could be on the road through the 25-hectare woodlands, Herridge's Copse and Broom Copse, which are south-east of Pangbourne.
(13) But Padruig's house is next to a small copse, and he likes to take to the trees when he has important decisions to make.
(14) Which is exactly what we did on her last day, watching woodpeckers in the copse in front of her cottage, and remembering our adventures together; up to an hour before she died, we were planning a new one, and she was excited that it might include a recce to the Arctic Circle to view the aurora borealis .
(15) Facebook Twitter Pinterest A typical view of a Northamptonshire field through which HS2 will pass, near Halse Copse.
Hanger
Definition:
(n.) One who hangs, or causes to be hanged; a hangman.
(n.) That by which a thing is suspended.
(n.) A strap hung to the girdle, by which a dagger or sword is suspended.
(n.) A part that suspends a journal box in which shafting runs. See Illust. of Countershaft.
(n.) A bridle iron.
(n.) That which hangs or is suspended, as a sword worn at the side; especially, in the 18th century, a short, curved sword.
(n.) A steep, wooded declivity.
Example Sentences:
(1) "Before this scheme rolled out I think there were very few accidents in the insulation industry," said the commissioner, Ian Hanger QC, adding that problems occurred after an influx of people becoming installers, including a number of "shonks".
(2) When he could finally find a question he was able to understand or willing to answer, his responses were either that he was far too important to have got involved in that level of detail or a microscopic analysis of the price of coat hangers.
(3) My present intention is not to repeat the examination and findings of those inquiries, nor do I intend to endlessly traverse matters which have already been examined,” Hanger told the opening hearing in Brisbane.
(4) The missing detail in every incomplete clarification worked like a cliff-hanger ending in a soap, leaving the audience hungry for the next episode.
(5) Our attitude was like Mr T and Rocky downstairs in the basement listening to a radio with a hanger sticking out of it doing push-ups.
(6) Press TV, which has offices near Hanger Lane in north-west London, employs a number of other UK journalists.
(7) Wings for the A400M – made from lightweight composites rather than aluminium to dramatically reduce weight and improve speed and manoeuvrability – are taking shape inside a nondescript hanger in Filton called 07N.
(8) Almost a full day behind schedule, Rudd appeared in Brisbane magistrate's court but did not speak a word beyond giving his name as the commissioner, Ian Hanger QC, and legal representatives held a heated discussion about the huge portions of Rudd's statement which had been redacted on request from the commonwealth due to parliamentary privilege.
(9) Hanger said: "Four young men died while undertaking installations funded by the home insulation program.
(10) Outside parliament on Saturday coat hangers, brandished by protesters as symbols of the crude tools used for backstreet abortions, were interspersed with red-painted placards proclaiming “My womb, not the fatherland’s” but also broader messages, such as “Make love not PiS”.
(11) Demonstrating his drawing power, hundreds of supporters turned out in the unlikely and awkward setting of an aircraft hanger.
(12) For women who lived in the United States before abortion was made legal, there are few images more evocative and distressing than the wire coat hanger.
(13) And so it was that I too succumbed to the vile illness and found myself quite without sight for a month, a cliff-hanger infinitely more effective in a serialisation than when you need only turn the page to find my sight restored.
(14) Lung cancer was elevated among men employed as insulators (odds ratio [OR] = 6.0; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 0.7, 137.8), carpenters (OR = 1.3; 95% CI = 1.0, 1.7), painters, plasterers, and wallpaper hangers (OR = 2.0; 95% CI = 1.2,3.3), structural metal workers (OR = 1.9; 95% CI = 0.6,6.0), mechanics and repairers (OR = 1.3; 95% CI = 1.0,1.7), motor vehicle drivers (OR = 1.5; 95% CI = 1.2,1.8), police and firefighters (OR = 1.6; 95% CI = 1.1,2.3), and food service personnel (OR = 1.8; 95% CI = 1.0,3.5).
(15) The television will finally come off standby and every single dress I own will be on its own hanger.
(16) Walker suggested Hanger's final report would be "impossible" should Rudd not be allowed to fully answer "suggestions" made by the current government that the home insulation scheme was created in days.
(17) The handles are attached to the slitlamp stand by placing a hanger bolt screw into the wooden dowel, inserting the exposed end of the screw through a hole drilled in the slitlamp table, and fastening the handle with a wing nut.
(18) Turn right at a crossroads to the Beech Hanger Woodland.
(19) It has been quite a phenomenon, telling us how, still, market dogmatism rules the economics profession (and its hangers-on in journalism).
(20) If this scene feels out of place in 2016, that may be because there was a time in this country’s history when thousands of back-alley and coat-hanger abortions prompted calls for the procedure to be legal.