Lexicographical Neighbors of Cowping
Literary usage of Cowping
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Proverbs, Proverbial Expressions, and Popular Rhymes of Scotland by Andrew Cheviot (1896)
"cowping the creels upon one. In former times the ordinary carriages of the farm
... cowping the kirn. Great efforts were made in the harvest field not to be ..."
2. Scottish Notes and Queries edited by John Bulloch, John Alexander Henderson (1903)
"The difficulty in the horse-cowping transaction, known as “the swap,” is how to
adjust an equal exchange. Let the reader imagine that he is stepping down ..."
3. Parochial Antiquities Attempted in the History of Ambrosden, Burcester, and ...by White Kennett, Thomas Delafield by White Kennett, Thomas Delafield (1818)
"... both which nave been corrupted into swop and swopping : and in the North, into
coup and cowping, which in Norfolk, and Suffolk is cope and coping. ..."
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