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coppis

coppis is the obsolete spelling of coppice.

Meaning of coppice

Noun

coppice (plural coppices)

  1. A grove of small growth; a thicket of brushwood; a wood cut at certain times for fuel or other purposes, typically managed to promote growth and ensure a reliable supply of timber. See copse.
    • […]belts of thin white mist streaked the brown plough land in the hollow where Appleby could see the pale shine of a winding river. Across that in turn, meadow and coppice rolled away past the white walls of a village bowered in orchards,[…]1907 January, Harold Bindloss, chapter 1, in The Dust of Conflict, 1st Canadian edition, Toronto, Ont.: McLeod & Allen, →OCLC
    Synonyms:
    copse

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Forms of coppis

pluralcoppises

Questions about coppis

What is coppis the obsolete spelling of?
Coppis is the obsolete spelling of coppice.

Words near coppis in the dictionary

  1. copping onto
  2. copping out
  3. copping the needle
  4. Coppinger
  5. coppins
  6. coppis
  7. coppises
  8. coppish
  9. coppishes
  10. copple
  11. copple dust

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Adapted from Wiktionary: coppis (page history and authors); coppice (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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