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† copintank, copentank, coptank Obs.
Forms: see below.
[A word of obscure origin and history, appearing also in the form copping- and copid tank, with the related adjs. coptanct and copple-tanked. Apparently the same word also occurs in Shakes. (1st fol.) as copataine.
Nothing similar is known in Dutch or the Romanic langs.; although L. capitāneus chief in size, large, or capitium, caputium head-covering, cap, Du. kop top, head, have been suggested as more or less possible explanations of part of the word. That it is really connected with the English group cop, copped, copple, is favoured by the variants, and by Horman's use of coppid cappis in the same sense as the coppid-, copping-, copin-tankes of the quots. But tank still remains unexplained. Our actual word tank is out of the question, being of recent introduction from India; of tankard no simple form tank is known.]
A high-crowned hat of the form of a sugar-loaf.
(Cf.1519Horman Vulgaria 111/1 Sometyme men were coppid cappis like a sugar lofe. )
(α) In form copin-, copyn-, coppin-, (copping-), copentank(e, -tancke, coppentante.
1508Barclay Shyp of Folys (1874) I. 38 Do on your Decke Slut: if ye purpos to come oft. I mean your Copyntanke: And if it wyl do no goode, To kepe you from the rayne, ye shall haue a foles hode. c1525Image Ipocr. Skelton's Wks. II. 429 For nowe the tyme falles To speake of cardinalles..With ther coppentante They loke adutante. 1555Fardle Facions ii. vii. 160 Thei cary..on their heades a copintancke, embattled aboute like a turrette. 1563–87Foxe A. & M. (1583) 2056 On his head a coppyng tanke. 1570G. Gilpin tr. Marnix's Beehive Rom. Ch. i. xii. I vijb, Then should come in the doctours of Loven with their great coppin-tankes [Dutch haere grote Toten] and doctours hattes. 1576Gascoigne Delicate Diet (1792) 18 Of..a Turkie bonnet [we make] a copentank for Caiphas. 1584T. Hudson tr. Du Bartas' Judith iii. 19 (1641) 364 Joyn'd with the men of..Armania With coppintanks [chef cresté].
(β) cop(p)id tank.
1562T. Phaer æneid viii. (1588) L iv, The Salij praunsing Priests, with mitred crownes and coppid tancks. 1580North Plutarch, Antonius (1595) 994 In a long gown after the fashion of the Medes with a high copped tanke hat on his head narrow in the toppe [auec un hault chappeau pointu sur la teste, dont la pointe estoit droitte]. 1585J. Higins tr. Junius' Nomenclator 165 Apex..a suger loafe hat; a coppid tanke hat.
(γ) coptank, coptanct. (The examples are attrib.; the form in -t may be adj. = coptanked: cf. below.)
1575Gascoigne Herbes Wks. (1587) 154 A coptanke [v.r. coptankt] hat made on a Flemish block. 1580North Plutarch (1676) 578 A high coptanct Hat. Ibid. 774 With a high coptank Hat on his head, narrow in the top, as the Kings of the Medes..do use to wear them.
b. A high peaked head; = cop-head 1.
1585J. Higins tr. Junius' Nomenclator 449 Cilo..One that hath a heade with a sharpe crowne, or fashioned like a sugerlofe: a copid tanke. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 47 Ulysses revileth not Thersites with these termes..Thou bald pate, thou coptank [cf. Iliad ii. 219 ϕοξὸς ἔην κεϕαλήν].
Hence copping-tanked, also copple-tanked a., (of a hat or head) high-peaked.
1586J. Ferne Blaz. Gentrie 159 On their heades coppinge tanked hattes. 1596Danett tr. Comines 10 Vpon their heads they [the Burgundians] ware felt-hats, copletanked, a quarter of an ell high or more. |