copeman

See also: Copeman

English

Etymology

From Dutch koopman, from koopen (“to buy”). See cope, chapman.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊpmən/

Noun

copeman (plural copemen)

(obsolete) A chapman; a dealer; a merchant.
- 1605 (first performance), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Volpone, or The Foxe. A Comœdie. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC:
  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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Anagrams

Compean, compane

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