COPPICE or COPSE. A small plantation of trees which are cut periodically for use or sale, before the trees grow into large timber. The produce is employed for hurdle, crate and basket-making, hop poles and many other purposes. Whether naturally or artificially grown the produce is looked on by the English law as fructus industrialis. The tenant for life or years may appropriate this produce. The word is derived from O. Fr. copeis or coupeis, from Late Lat. colpare, to cut with a blow.