bosk

1. (obsolete except dialectal) A bush.

2. (archaic) A thicket; a small wood.Examples: "Meantime, through well-known bosk and dell, / I'll lead where we may shelter well."; "[...] and so by town and thorpe, / And tilth, and blowing bosks of wilderness, / We gain'd the mother-city thick with towers, / And in the imperial palace found the king."; "The enclosure was indeed little beyond that of a good-sized paddock – its boundaries were visible on every side – but swelling uplands, covered with massy foliage sloped down to its wild irregular turf soil – soil poor for pasturage, but pleasant to the eye; with dell and dingle, bosks of fantastic pollards – dotted oaks of vast growth – here and there a weird hollow thorn-tree – patches of fern and gorse."Synonyms: copse, grovearchaic