Definition of "coppiced" []

• Simple past tense and past participle of coppice. (verb)

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• "Alley cropping (AC) is the practice of growing food crops in alleys between hedgerows of trees or shrubs which are regularly "coppiced," or severely pruned."
• "Wood for charcoal was generally coppiced, with the new shoots from a trunk cut right back to the ground every 15 years or so."
• "In an old coppiced wood, you may find the platforms on which the charcoal-makers heated the cut branches over several days, keeping out the oxygen to turn them into the precious carbon-rich fuel."