| 单词 | herring-couper |
| 释义 | > as lemmasherring-couper One who barters, deals, or buys and sells. Cf. coper n.1 Now chiefly in combinations, as herring-couper, horse-couper, etc. ΘΚΠ 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 man- 1581 Sc. Acts Jas. VI (1597) §122 The halding of horses at hard meat all the Sommer season, vsed commounlie be..Cowppers. 1638 R. Baillie Lett. & Jrnls. (1841) I. 111 The horse which our cowpers had bought at Maton fair. 1793 J. Sinclair Statist. Acct. Scotl. VI. 44 (note) (Jam.) Nor are they..a match for horse-cowpers, cow-cowpers,—the people that farmers have to deal with. 1844 W. H. Maxwell Wanderings in Highlands & Islands I. xiii. 232 Its visitants [were] Dutch herring-coupers. < as lemmas |
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