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单词 coper
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copern.1

Brit. /ˈkəʊpə/, U.S. /ˈkoʊpər/
Etymology: < cope v.3 + -er suffix1.
1.
a. One who ‘copes’; a dealer, chapman.
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society > trade and finance > trader > [noun]
mongereOE
chapmanc890
haberdasher1311
need doera1382
handlera1398
unfreeman1445
occupier1509
taker-up1548
trafficker1560
pliers1565
copeman1566
trader1566
copemaster1579
couper1581
drover1585
negotiator1596
merchandiser1597
coper1609
dealer1611
commercer1632
market-maker1647
general dealer1709
negotianta1774
outfitter1829
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1609 J. Skene tr. Regiam Majestatem 152 Forebuyers of quheit, bear, and aites, copers, sellers, and turners thereof in merchandices.
1832 L. Hunt Sir Ralph Esher I. x. 217 There is not a better caterer or coper of his birds, 'twixt this and the Land's End.
b. Often in combinations, as horse-coper, herring coper, salmon-coper, †silver-coper (-cooper, -couper). See these words.
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1742 R. North & M. North Life F. North 139 There were Horsecopers amongst them.
1796 J. G. Stedman Narr. Exped. Surinam II. xvii. 28 One Cordus..had been trepanned into the West India Company's Service by the crimps or silver-coopers as a common soldier.
1845 New Statist. Acct. Scotl. 160 The fisheries are chiefly rented by Salmon Coopers in Berwick.
1891 C. Bradley in Outdoor Games & Recr. xxii. 357 That old rascal Screwdriver, the pony coper.
c. spec. (= horse-coper n.). A horse-dealer.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in horses
romonger1222
horse-mongera1400
cosser14..
corser?c1430
horse-corser1552
jockey1640
horse-coper1681
horse-jockey1744
horse-dealer1761
macquignon1798
horse-trader1811
coper1825
horse-cadger1886
1825 C. M. Westmacott Eng. Spy I. 236 The old clerical's turned coper.
1864 C. Clarke Box for Season I. 291 The young cavalry officer was a bit of a coper..and was not long in ascertaining that he had got hold of a circus-horse.
1882 Pall Mall Gaz. 2 June 4/1 The trade of the coper is all trickery.
2. Derbyshire Mining. ‘One who agrees to take or make a bargain to get [lead] ore:’ see cope v.3 4, cope n.3 2.
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1802 J. Mawe Mineral. of Derbyshire Gloss.
1811 J. Farey Gen. View Agric. Derbyshire I. 366 The Miners who dig the Ore are usually called Copers, from their working at a certain Cope or price per Ton.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

copercoopern.2

Brit. /ˈkəʊpə/, U.S. /ˈkoʊpər/
Etymology: < Flemish and Dutch kooper, Frisian and Low German kôper, purchaser, trader, dealer, < koopen to buy, deal, trade = German kaufen , English cheap v.Usually spelt cooper in the newspapers 1881–84, but pronounced coper by the fishermen, and so spelt in the publications of the Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen. In the memory of old smacksmen of Grimsby (as stated by Mr. J. F. Wintringham) the name goes back to 1854, when Flemish and Dutch koopers first began to frequent the fleets.
A vessel fitted out to supply ardent spirits, etc. usually in exchange for fish, to the deep-sea fishers in the North Sea; a floating grog-shop.The practice began in a comparatively innocent barter trade carried on by Dutch boats visiting the fishing fleets, when the latter fished in close to the land, off Camperdown and the Texel; but it led to the fitting out of ‘floating grog-shops’ to attend each fleet. Public attention was called to the demoralizing nature of the traffic in 1881, and it formed the subject of a convention between the British, German and Dutch governments in 1882, for the carrying out of which an Act of Parliament was passed in 1888.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > fishing vessel > [noun] > vessels which supply fishing fleet
jagger1615
coper1881
society > trade and finance > trading place > place where retail transactions made > [noun] > shop > shop selling liquor > floating
coper1881
1881 Conference at the Hague, Sitting 8 Oct. in Blue Bk., Commerc. (1882) No. 24 The traffic carried on..by those [boats] known as ‘coopers’ or ‘bum-boats’.
1882 Standard 28 Dec. 5/3 The Hollanders are..the chief offenders; but ‘coopers’ are also familiar in ports nearer home.
1884 Rep. on N.S. Fisheries in Blue Bk., Commerc. No. 5 (1888) 12 The ‘coopers’ or floating grog-shops chiefly hail from German and Dutch ports..They trade in tobacco and spirits of vile quality..and latterly in immoral and obscene cards and photographs.
1887 E. J. Mather Nor'ard of Dogger (1889) iii. 28 These Dutch copers ostensibly cruised with the English fleets for the purpose of selling tobacco.
1890 Spectator 27 Sept. 414 The ‘coper’, or grog-ship, has been banished.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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