copeman
See also: Copeman
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Dutch koopman, from koopen (“to buy”). See cope, chapman.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]copeman (plural copemen)
- (obsolete) A chapman; a dealer; a merchant.
- 1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page):
- He would have sold his part of paradise / For ready money, had he met a cope-man.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “copeman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)