copeman
English
Etymology
From Dutch koopman, from koopen (“to buy”). See cope, chapman.
Noun
copeman (plural copemen)
- (obsolete) A chapman; a dealer; a merchant.
- Ben Jonson
- He would have sold his part of paradise / For ready money, had he met a copeman.
- Ben Jonson
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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)
Anagrams
- Compean, compane