copsolecopsiln.
Obsolete or dialect.
1. = cops n. 3.
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1562 in G. J. Piccope Lancs. & Cheshire Wills (1860) II. 34 ij copsolls xvid.
1625 Invent. in G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. (1879) at Copsil Two pair of Cotterells or Copsoles.
1688 R. Holme Acad. Armory iii. viii. 335 He beareth Gules, a Cop-sole and Pin, with the chain pendant, Argent, by the name of Copsole. This is very often by old Heralds termed a Dog-Couple, but..I should rather take it for a Shakle and Bolt, with the Chain hanging at it.
1704 Dict. Rusticum at Cart The Wain Cope, that part which the hinder Oxen are yoaked unto to draw the Wain... The Cope Sale and Pin, are Irons that fasten the Chain with other Oxen thereat, to the end of the Cope. [Hence 1727 in Bradley Fam. Dict., 1730–6 Bailey fol., 1823 Univ. Techn. Dict., etc., etc., s.v. Cope-sale.]
1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Cart The Cope-Sale, and Pin.
1847–78 J. O. Halliwell Dict. Archaic & Provinc. Words Copsal, a piece of iron which terminates the front of a plough.
1881 G. F. Jackson Shropshire Word-bk. Suppl. Copsil..c. A piece of iron describing an arc, welded to the end of the plough-beam, perforated and furnished with pins, for adjusting the width and regulating the draught.
2. ‘A wedge for keeping the coulter of an old-fashioned wooden plough in its place at a proper angle to the beam.’
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1881 Shropshire Word-bk. 96 Copsils of this kind fell out of use when iron ploughs became general, about 1835–40.
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