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English
Etymology
From copple + -ed.
Adjective
coppled (comparative more coppled, superlative most coppled)
- (obsolete) Rising to a point; conical; copped.
1729, J Woodward, “Classis IV. Multivalvia.”, in An Attempt towards a Natural History of the Fossils of England; , tome I, London: F Fayram, ; J Senex, ; and J. Osborn and T Longman, , →OCLC, part II (A Catalogue of the English Fossils in the Collection of J. Woodward Exhibiting the Fossils that are Extraneous; the Parts of Vegetables, and of Animals, Digg’d Up out of the Bowels of the Earth; in Particular the Shells of Sea-Fishes: As also the Stoney, Mineral, and Metallick Bodies Form’d in Them. Ranged and Disposed in a Classical Method, according to Their Several Kinds and Alliances; with an Historical Account of Each: As Likewise Various Observations, and Reflections.">…]), page 68:There is something of a Difference in the Shape of ſeveral of theſe; ſome being flatter on the top, others more coppled; but the Differences do not ſeem to be ſo great as to imply that they are of diſtinct Species
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