copple

See also: Copple

English

Etymology

cop +‎ -le, diminutive.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /ˈkɒpəl/
  • Rhymes: -ɒpəl

Noun

copple (plural copples)

  1. Something rising in a conical shape; a hill rising to a point.
    • 1589, Richard Hakluyt, The Principall Navigations, Voiages, and Discoveries of the English Nation, […], London: […] George Bishop and Ralph Newberie, deputies to Christopher Barker, […], →OCLC:
      A low cape, and upon it is a copple not very high.
  2. (obsolete) A crest on a bird's head.

Derived terms

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “copple”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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