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† ˈcoppling, copling, ppl. a. Obs.
[Related to copple n. 2, and coppled; but in senses 2 and 3 app. influenced by cockling, toppling.]
1. Swelling upwards to a summit.
1670H. Stubbe The Plus Ultra 144 It rose with an unequal intumescence, copling, like a loaf in the midst. 1688in Somers Tracts Ser. i. II. 305 A few Foreigners of no Quality were only to keep the Secret of what her Majesty was to make the copling Belly. 1694Narborough, etc. Voy. i. 23 A small rocky Island, copling up like a Haycock. Ibid. 42 Large Hills, and some round copling tops. Ibid. 80 Two peaked copling Rocks. 1745P. Thomas Jrnl. Anson's Voy. 18 The Country about it is pretty much on the Level, except a few copling Hillocks to the Northward.
2. Of the sea: Surging up into short irregular waves, tumbling; = cockling ppl. a. 2.
1667H. Stubbe in Phil. Trans. II. 497 The waves..are short, and make a Copling Sea in the Bay of Biscay.
3. Of stones, etc.: Unsteady, toppling; = cockling ppl. a. 3.
a1825Forby, Coppling, adv., unsteady, in danger of falling. ‘It stands coppling, as if it stood upon its head’. |