Wold vs Coppice - What's the difference?
wold | coppice |
An unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor.
(obsolete) A wood or forest, especially a wooded upland
* Byron
* Tennyson
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.
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To manage a wooded area sustainably, as a coppice.
As nouns the difference between wold and coppice
is that wold is an unforested or deforested plain, a grassland, a moor while coppice is 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.As a verb coppice is
to manage a wooded area sustainably, as a coppice.wold
English
Noun
(en noun)- And from his further bank Aetolia's wolds espied.
- The wind that beats the mountain, blows / More softly round the open wold .
Usage notes
* Used in many English place-names, always hilly tracts of land. * Wald'' (German) is a cognate, but a false friend because it retains the original meaning of ''forest .Derived terms
* Cotswolds * (Lincolnshire Wolds) * wolder * (Yorkshire Wolds)References
* OED 2nd edition 1989 ----coppice
English
Noun
(Coppicing) (en noun)citation, passage=
- It was also enacted that all coppices or underwoods should be enclosed for periods from four to seven years after felling.
Synonyms
* copseDerived terms
* copseVerb
(coppic)- Her plan to coppice the woods should keep her self-sufficient in fuel indefinitely.