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Cop sb.4. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Cop sb.4 Obs. exc. dial. Also copse. [Derivation unknown: copse is app. for the plural cops, the plural being common in local names of this apparatus, e.g., lead-trees, ripples, etc.; but it is also possible that copse was really a singular, and cop mistakenly formed from it under the notion that it was a plural: cf. the history of COPSE sb.]. The moveable frame attached to the front of a wagon or farm cart, or projecting all round its sides, so as to extend its surface when carrying a bulky load, as of hay, corn, copsewood, or the like.

1 1679.  P. Henry, Diaries, etc. (1882), 279. A child … fell off ye cop of ye cart near Odford, his father driving the cart.

2 1770.  Ann. Reg., 154. [Taken to execution with] her coffin on the copse of the cart.

3 1841.  Jrnl. R. Agric. Soc., II. I. 76. The outrigger, or ‘copse,’ supported over the horse by an iron upright from the shafts.

4 1847–78.  Halliwell, Cop, that part of a waggon which hangs over the thiller-horse [no source or locality given].

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