Definitions
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A stick or switch used among some American Indians in making or counting a coup.
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The blow might be struck with anything held in the hand, -- a whip, coupstick, club, lance, the muzzle of a gun, a bow, or what not.
Blackfoot Lodge Tales George Bird Grinnell 1893
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