Lexicographical Neighbors of Couping
Literary usage of Couping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Glossary of Words Used in Swaledale, Yorkshire by John Harland (1876)
"couping. ' I was sair flay'd of a couping,' afraid of an overturn in the carriage.
couping word, or Capping word. ' She's desperate for hewing t' couping ..."
2. Rob Roy by Walter Scott, David Henry Montgomery (1894)
"couping the creels: tumbling heels over head. Through-stanes: grave-stones.
Kirk wi' a chimley: ie, a tavern with a chimney corner to sit in. ..."
3. A Glossary of Yorkshire Words and Phrases: Collected in Whitby and the by Francis Kildale Robinson (1855)
"To have the "couping word," the last or decisive word which shall fix the bargain
or exchange. See To Coup. ..."
4. The History of Old Dundee, Narrated Out of the Town Council Register, with by Alexander Maxwell (1884)
"There, however, continued to be much " couping of victual, nocht only in this
market, but also in the country," by which "dearth was raised upon the ..."
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