Definitions for "boscage"
A growth of trees or shrubs; underwood; a thicket; thick foliage; a wooded landscape.
Food or sustenance for cattle, obtained from bushes and trees; also, a tax on wood.
A boscage is a place set with trees; a grove or thicket. In a legal sense, it signifies mast—nuts of forest trees, used as food for pigs—or any such sustenance as wood and trees yield to cattle.