coppled
English
Adjective
coppled (comparative more coppled, superlative most coppled)
- (obsolete) Rising to a point; conical; copped.
- 1729, J[ohn] Woodward, “Classis IV. Multivalvia.”, in An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England; […], tome I, London: […] F[rancis] Fayram, […]; J[ohn] Senex, […]; and J. Osborn and T[homas] Longman, […], →OCLC, part II (A Catalogue of the English Fossils in the Collection of J. Woodward […]), page 68:
- There is something of a Difference in the Shape of ſeveral of theſe; ſome being flatter on the top, others more coppled; but the Differences do not ſeem to be ſo great as to imply that they are of diſtinct Species
Further reading
- “coppled”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
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