coper

UK:*UK and possibly other pronunciationsUK and possibly other pronunciations/ˈkəʊpə/US:USA pronunciation: respellingUSA pronunciation: respelling(kō′pər)


WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2025
cop•er  (kō′pər),USA pronunciation n. [Brit.]
  1. British Termsa horse dealer. Also called horse-coper. 
  • cope4 + -er1 1600–10

Collins Concise English Dictionary © HarperCollins Publishers::
coper / ˈkəʊpə/
  1. a horse-dealer
Etymology: 17th Century (a dealer, chapman): from dialect cope to buy, barter, from Low German; related to Dutch koopen to buy
'coper' also found in these entries (note: many are not synonyms or translations):
Copernicus - cope - copper - horse-coper - kipper - post-Copernican - pre-Copernican - pre-Copernicanism - recoup

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