▪ I. † ˈculpon, n. Obs.
Forms: 4–5 culpoun, coulpon, 4– culpon, (5 colpon, 6 culpown, -in, -yn; Sc. 6–7 cowpon, coupon, 9 coopin.
[a. OF. colpon, coulpon, copon, now coupon, cutting, cut, slice, piece, portion, f. colper, coper, couper to cut. The same word has been adopted from mod.Fr. in a special sense as coupon.]
A piece cut off, a cutting; a portion, strip, slice, bit, shred.
| c 1386 Chaucer Prol. 679 This Pardoner hadde heer as yelow as wex..But thynne it lay by colpons [v.r. culpouns] oon and oon. c 1400 Ywaine & Gaw. 642 Al to peces thai hewed thair sheldes, The culpons flegh out in the feldes. c 1450 Two Cookery-bks. 89 Take eles..and choppe hem in faire colpons. 1548 Hall Chron. (1809) 635 Velvet embroudered with sundery knottes and culpyns of golde. 1563 Winȝet Four Scoir Thre Quest. §5 margin, Quhen thai cleik fra ws twa coupounis of our crede, tyme is to speik. 1590 Bruce Serm. Sacr. B viij a, Suppose thou get a cowpon of him [thy sauior] in the sacrament, that cowpon wald do thee na good. 1825 Jamieson, Cowpon..in pl., shatters, shivers: pronounced coopins. |
▪ II. † ˈculpon, v. Obs.
Also 6 coulpen, 7 Sc. coupon.
[f. culpon n.]
1. trans. To cut into pieces, cut up, slice.
| 14.. Anc. Cookery 467 Take eles culponde and clene wasshen. 1513 Bk. Keruynge in Babees Bk. (1868) 265 Termes of a Keruer..culpon that troute. 1567 Drant Horace's Ep. ii. i. F viij, He that did crowse and culpon once Hydra of hellish spyte. 1606 W. Birnie Kirk-Buriall (1833) 16 Superstition is lyke some serpents, that though they be couponed in many cuttes, yet they can keepe some lyfe in all. |
2. To ornament or trim with strips or patches of a different-coloured material; sometimes, perhaps, to border with pieces of alternate colouring: see Godefroy, s.v. componné, couponné.
| 1577–87 Holinshed Chron. III. 820/1 The trappers of the coursers were mantell harnesse coulpened. Ibid. 858/1 A chemere, of cloath of silver, culponed with cloath of gold, of damaske, cantell wise. |