coppicing

English

Verb

coppicing

1. present participle and gerund of coppice

Noun

coppicing (countable and uncountable, plural coppicings)

1. The act of cutting back a woody plant to promote new growth.
   • 1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 118:

     Coppicing provides a perpetual supply of small timber for village craftsmen, […] The art of coppicing was known to late Stone Age Britons who used the poles for causeways which, in wet ground, have survived to the present day.