(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.
Hoult
Definition:
(n.) A piece of woodland; a small wood. [Obs.] See Holt.
Example Sentences:
(1) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Nicholas Hoult in Kill Your Friends, 2015.
(2) Hoult, however, concedes the radicalism more freely.
(3) But I’m no longer obsessed.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Instead, Hoult speaks knowledgeably about daytime TV – in particular Homes Under the Hammer , Wanted Down Under and Come Dine With Me – and with studenty enthusiasm about food: “When I fall asleep I’m thinking about breakfast and then after breakfast it’s lunch and then it’s dinnertime with snacks in between.” At 25, then, he remains appealingly suburban despite the glam location (beach cabana at the Hotel du Cap , Cannes’s most exclusive) and rising star status ( X-Men , Clash of the Titans , Jack the Giant Slayer , Jennifer Lawrence ’s ex).
(4) So it’s hard to imagine the unhappiness of Mrs Hoult after her son was cast in Mad Max: Fury Road – eight months in the Namibian desert hanging off exploding lorries, told not to move lest his head come off.
(5) The guns are more pumped, the giggle less nervous, but Hoult is still a genuine sweetie.
(6) The results are shown to be in good agreement with experiment and reduce to the more traditional expression for the coil impedance of Hoult and Lauterbur (1979) in the low conductivity or small sample size limit.
(7) The spectrum of normal muscle was found to resemble that obtained by Hoult et al.
(8) One of Bocchi’s staff members, Catriona Hoult, was formerly a national newspaper journalist.
(9) We derive an expression describing the electric interaction between an NMR coil and sample which is the analogue of the well known Hoult-Richards expression for the magnetic interaction.
(10) As critics have observed, the fear on Hoult’s face is pretty convincing.
(11) When Miller wrote the script in 1999, he conceived of Hoult’s character as a quasi kamikaze pilot.
(12) It’s impossible.” Mad Max’s Nicholas Hoult on hanging off lorries and channeling Andrex puppies Read more Theron, cool and blond and glossy, sips mineral water in front of the sea.
(13) Nearly nine years ago, Nicholas Hoult gave a series of interviews.
(14) David Hoult Stockport • Coincidental that the three political parties currently set to be excluded from the forthcoming TV election debates are led by women and the four to be included are led by men ( Report , 17 January)?
(15) Very much a reflection of what’s going on in the world.” Facebook Twitter Pinterest Riley Keough and Nicholas Hoult in Mad Max: Fury Road.
(16) Previously announced was George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road , with Tom Hardy tearing around a desert wasteland alongside Charlize Theron and Nicholas Hoult.
(17) Nicholas Hoult, too, is having an intriguing career, and though Nux wasn’t the hero of Mad Max: Fury Road , he provided the film with its most compelling character arc.
(18) Results of this analysis as well as those for the full sphere as presented by Hoult and Lauterbur are compared with observation for a variety of sample conductivities and orientation.
(19) Hoult’s recurring role as Dr Hank McCoy in the X-Men films has already awarded him his superhero badge, leaving him free to branch out into interesting areas such as off-the-wall westerns (Young Ones) and black comedies (Kill Your Friends).
(20) ‘I became a citizen, had a cream tea and then registered to vote’ : Debbie Hoult, 62, retired, Beaconsfield, Conservative Facebook Twitter Pinterest Debbie Hoult: ‘It’s a time to become more informed if one wants to vote.’ Photograph: David Yeo for the Guardian I’m an American but I’ve been living in Britain for 26 years.