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coper

[ koh-per ]

noun

, British.
  1. a horse dealer.


coper

/ ˈkəʊpə /

noun

  1. a horse-dealer
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of coper1

First recorded in 1600–10; cope 4 + -er 1
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Word History and Origins

Origin of coper1

C17 (a dealer, chapman): from dialect cope to buy, barter, from Low German; related to Dutch koopen to buy
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Example Sentences

Dark copers both felt great and thought they had learned and grown.

At first Edward had better luck with his Lieutenant, a certain horse-coper or dealer.

She was to sell the tobacco at a fixed price that just covered the cost, and undersold the "coper" by fifty per cent.

Before they climbed aboard, the taller man said, 'Now let us sink the coper's boat.

And here is the carroty-poled urchin, George Coper, returning from work, and singing 'Home!

It was that enemy of souls, that floating grog-shop, that pirate of the North Sea, the coper.

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