copse-ware

Melbury, with his timber and copse-ware business, found that the weight of his labor came in winter and spring.

The Woodlanders 2006

Without any solicitation, or desire for profit on his part, he had been asked to execute during that winter a very large order for hurdles and other copse-ware, for which purpose he had been obliged to buy several acres of brushwood standing.

The Woodlanders 2006

The building on the left of the enclosure was a long-backed erection, now used for spar-making, sawing, crib-framing, and copse-ware manufacture in general.

The Woodlanders 2006

Melbury, with his timber and copse-ware business, found that the weight of his labor came in winter and spring.

The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884

The building on the left of the enclosure was a long-backed erection, now used for spar-making, sawing, crib-framing, and copse-ware manufacture in general.

The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884

Without any solicitation, or desire for profit on his part, he had been asked to execute during that winter a very large order for hurdles and other copse-ware, for which purpose he had been obliged to buy several acres of brushwood standing.

The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884

This erection was the wagon-house of the chief man of business hereabout, Mr. George Melbury, the timber, bark, and copse-ware merchant for whom Marty's father did work of this sort by the piece.

The Woodlanders Thomas Hardy 1884

Later on in The Woodlanders, Hardy describes the manufacture of spars in Mr Melbury’s timber and copse-ware yard: Winterbourne thereupon crossed over to the spar-house where some journeymen were already at work, two of them being travelling spar-makers from Stagfoot Lane, who, when the fall of the leaf began, made their appearance regularly, and when winter was over disappeared in silence till the season came again.’

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

Later on in The Woodlanders, Hardy describes the manufacture of spars in Mr Melbury’s timber and copse-ware yard: Winterbourne thereupon crossed over to the spar-house where some journeymen were already at work, two of them being travelling spar-makers from Stagfoot Lane, who, when the fall of the leaf began, made their appearance regularly, and when winter was over disappeared in silence till the season came again.’

Wildwood Roger Deakin 2009

This erection was the wagon-house of the chief man of business hereabout, Mr. George Melbury, the timber, bark, and copse-ware merchant for whom Marty’s father did work of this sort by the piece.

The Woodlanders 2006