copse vs pleach

copse

noun
  • Any thicket of small trees or shrubs, coppiced or not. 

  • A coppice: an area of woodland managed by coppicing (periodic cutting near stump level). 

  • Any woodland or woodlot. 

verb
  • To trim or cut. 

  • To plant and preserve. 

pleach

noun
  • A branch of a shrub, tree, etc., used for pleaching; a pleacher. 

  • An act or result of interweaving; specifically, (horticulture) a hedge or lattice created by interweaving the branches of shrubs, trees, etc. 

  • A notch cut into a branch so that it can be bent when pleaching is carried out. 

verb
  • To unite by interweaving, as (horticulture) branches of shrubs, trees, etc., to create a hedge; to interlock, to plash. 

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