Middle English Dictionary Entry
copīs n.
Entry Info
| Forms | copīs n. Also copice, copies, copois, coppis, coppes, copy. |
| Etymology | OF copëiz; ME copy from copīs taken as pl. |
Definitions (Senses and Subsenses)
1.
(a) A cut-over area grown with underbrush; coppice, thicket; also in place names [see Smith PNElem. 1.106]; (b) ~ hegge, a hedge of underbrush; ~ tre, a tree in a thicket.
Associated quotations
a
- (c1410) York MGame (Vsp B.12)89 : It befalleþ somtyme þat hertis..pasture..wiþ inne her Couerte, and goon not out ne to þe feeldis ne to þe copoys ne to yong wode.
- c1460 Oseney Reg.37/28 : Withoute waste..or copies [L assartis] therof to be i-made.
- (1472) in Madox Form.Angl.(1702)106 : Reversionem..bosci vocati Coliarcopy.
b
- (a1398) *Trev.Barth.(Add 27944)141a/b : Somme woode foules..duelliþ in woodes and in þicke koppis [Tol: coppes] treen.
- a1450 Forest Laws (Dc 335)242 : Yf he haue licens to felle, ye shal do vs to wete yf he make his copyes hegges therof acordyng to the assise of the forest, that is to wete, that a doo and he[r] faune of v nyȝt olde may lepe oute and In.
- a1500(1452) Cart.Boarstall in OHS 88193 : Wyndefeld wode, olde copies hegges.
Supplemental Materials (draft)
- (1477) EPNSoc.16 (Wil.)377 : Warnerscopice.
Note: Supplemental material: needed for date.
Note: Belongs to sense (a).
Note: The form copy should perhaps be given as a plural copi in the form section (see etymology). It seems to be in agreement with the Latin "bosci vocati.."--notes per MLL