Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun A lever on the upper part of a loom, used to lift the harness.
  • noun One who buys and sells; a dealer: as, a horse-couper.

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Examples

  • A quick aside: my Fr/Eng dictionary gives these words for "neuter" - chatrer and couper (ouch!)

    chatrer - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • A quick aside: my Fr/Eng dictionary gives these words for "neuter" - chatrer and couper ouch!

    chatrer - French Word-A-Day 2010

  • - Jean-Philippe, on ne peut pas continuer à se couper de tout le monde comme ça …

    une pièce montée 2008

  • - Jean-Philippe, on ne peut pas continuer à se couper de tout le monde comme ça …

    l’oeil du cyclone 2008

  • Terms & Expressions: être dans le brouillard = to be in the dark (unaware) brouillard "à couper au couteau" (fog "to cut with a knife") = peasouper (or very thick fog)

    brouillard - French Word-A-Day 2008

  • Terms & Expressions: être dans le brouillard = to be in the dark (unaware) brouillard "à couper au couteau" (fog "to cut with a knife") = peasouper (or very thick fog)

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • Terms & Expressions: être dans le brouillard = to be in the dark (unaware) brouillard "à couper au couteau" (fog "to cut with a knife") = peasouper (or very thick fog)

    French Word-A-Day: 2008

  • Garber had previously let on that he thought the Ottawa bid was "à couper le souffle" literally - take your breath away, and will be visiting again shortly, so I wouldn't write it off entirely.

    Wait...you mean that whole Ottawa thing wasn't a joke? Duane Rollins 2009

  • Les autorités pénitentiaires ont fait couper l'eau, et à la différence de ses co détenus, il ne peut sortir pour se laver ailleurs.

    Tunisia: Relentless Campaign Against Imprisoned Blogger and Journalist Slim Boukhdhir 2008

  • My father, rest his saul, was a horse-couper, and used to say he never was cheated in a naig in his life, saving by a west-country whig frae

    The Monastery 2008

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  • This old term for a dealer or seller has lent its name to the English occupational surname Couper.

    May 10, 2011