ˈcopple-crown Obs. exc. dial.
[see prec.]
1. A tuft of feathers on a fowl's head; a crest.
| a 1634 Randolph Amyntas ii. iii, Like the Copple-crowne The Lapwing has. 1706 E. Ward Hud. Rediv. II. iii. 14 Thus did he straddle up and down, Like stalking Cock with copple Crown. 1730 Swift Panegyr. Dean, Whose Off'rings..Adorn our crystal River's Banks: Nor seldom grace the flow'ry Downs, With spiral Tops, and Copple-Crowns. a 1825 Forby Voc. E. Anglia, Copple-crown, a tuft of feathers on the head of a fowl, permanently erect. It is sometimes called a topple-crown. |
2. Short for copple-crowned hen; = coppy n.2 (U.S. local).
Hence † ˈcopple-crowned ppl. a., crested, peaked.
| 1685 L. Wafer Voy. (1729) 336 Of different colours and breeds, as Copple-crown'd, the common Dunghill cock and hen, and of the Game kind. 1732 Mrs. Delany Corr. I. 362 You are very good in getting the copple-crowned fowl. 1732 Swift Wks. (1778) IV. 191 Excrements..copple crowned with a point like a cone or pyramid. |