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Copple-crown. 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. Copple-crown Obs. exc. dial. [see prec.]

1   1.  A tuft of feathers on a fowl’s head; a crest.

2 a. 1634.  Randolph, Amyntas, II. iii. Like the Copple-crowne The Lapwing has.

3 1706.  E. Ward, Hud. Rediv., II. III. 14. Thus did he straddle up and down, Like stalking Cock with copple Crown.

4 1730.  Swift, Panegyr. Dean. Whose Off’rings … Adorn our crystal River’s Banks: Nor seldom grace the flow’ry Downs, With spiral Tops, and Copple-Crowns.

5 a. 1825.  Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Copple-crown, a tuft of feathers on the head of a fowl, permanently erect. It is sometimes called a topple-crown.

6   2.  Short for copple-crowned hen; = COPPY sb.2 (U.S. local).

7   Hence † Copple-crowned ppl. a., crested, peaked.

8 1685.  L. Wafer, Voy. (1729), 336. Of different colours and breeds, as Copple-crown’d, the common Dunghill cock and hen, and of the Game kind.

9 1732.  Mrs. Delany, Corr., I. 362. You are very good in getting the copple-crowned fowl.

10 1732.  Swift, Wks. (1778), IV. 191. Excrements … copple crowned with a point like a cone or pyramid.

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