Copse

(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.

卡米尔录入

• And root up the copse? 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• A portion of the copse was now to clear. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Birds began singing in brake and copse: birds were faithful to their mates; birds were emblems of love. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 简·爱.
• The copse shall be firewood ere five years elapse. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• I hear the water fret over its stony bed in Hollow's Copse as distinctly as if it ran below the churchyard wall. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪莉.
• Just then, there emerged from a near copse two goats and a little kid, by the mother's side; they began to browze the herbage of the hill. 玛丽·雪莱. 最后一个人.
• There was plough-land and pasture, and copses of bare trees, copses of bushes, and homesteads naked and work-bare. 戴维·赫伯特·劳伦斯. 恋爱中的女人.

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