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coper
[ koh-per ]
noun
, British.
- a horse dealer.
coper
/ ˈkəʊpə /
noun
- a horse-dealer
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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.
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She was to sell the tobacco at a fixed price that just covered the cost, and undersold the "coper" by fifty per cent.
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Before they climbed aboard, the taller man said, 'Now let us sink the coper's boat.
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And here is the carroty-poled urchin, George Coper, returning from work, and singing 'Home!
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It was that enemy of souls, that floating grog-shop, that pirate of the North Sea, the coper.
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