Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Coppice \Cop"pice\ (k[o^]p"p[i^]s), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Coppiced} (-p[i^]st); p. pr. & vb. n. {Coppicing}.]
   (Forestry)
   To cause to grow in the form of a coppice; to cut back (as
   young timber) so as to produce shoots from stools or roots.