different between copse vs hoult

English

Etymology

1578, from coppice, by contraction, originally meaning “small wood grown for purposes of periodic cutting”.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k?ps/
• Rhymes: -?ps
• Homophone: cops

Noun

copse (plural copses)

1. A thicket of small trees or shrubs.
   • 1578, Rembert Dodoens (author) and Henry Lyte (translator), A niewe Herball or Historie of Plantes page 57:

     Agrimonie groweth in places not tylled, in rough stone mountaynes, in hedges and Copses, and by waysides.

   • 1798, William Wordsworth, Lines composed a few miles above Tintern Abbey, lines 9–15 (for syntax):

     The day is come when I again repose

     Here, under this dark sycamore, and view

     These plots of cottage-ground, these orchard tufts,

     Which at this season, with their unripe fruits,

     Are clad in one green hue, and lose themselves

     ’Mid groves and copses.

   • 1919, Ronald Firbank, Valmouth, Duckworth (hardback edition), p19:

     Striking the highway beyond the little copse she skirted the dark iron palings enclosing Hare.

Synonyms

• coppice

Translations

See also

• bush, bushes, forest, mott, orchard
• stand, thicket, wood, woods

Verb

copse (third-person singular simple present copses, present participle copsing, simple past and past participle copsed)

1. (transitive, horticulture) To trim or cut.
2. (transitive, horticulture) To plant and preserve.

Further reading

• James A. H. Murray [et al.], editors (1884–1928) , “Copse”, in A New English Dictionary on Historical Principles (Oxford English Dictionary), volume II (C), London: Clarendon Press, OCLC 15566697, page 977, column 1.

Anagrams

• -scope, OPSEC, Pecos, copes, scope, ?-scope, ?scope

English

Etymology

Variant of holt.

Noun

hoult (plural hoults)

1. (obsolete) A wood; copse.
   • 1600, Edward Fairfax, The Jerusalem Delivered of Tasso, Book VIII, xii:

     The nearest way seem'd best, o'er hoult and heath / We went, through deserts waste, and forests wide.

Anagrams

• Louth