(definition) by Webster 1913 Tue Dec 21 1999 at 22:43:16

Cope"man (?), n. [D. koopman, fr. koopen to buy. See Cope, v. i. Chapman.]

A chapman; a dealer; a merchant.

[Obs.]

He would have sold his part of paradise For ready money, had he met a copeman. B. Jonson.

 

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