couped, ppl. a.
(kuːpt)
Also 7 cooped.
† 1. Cut, slashed: see coup v.2 1. Obs.
2. Her. Said of the head or any member of an animal, or a part of a plant, represented as cut off ‘clean’ or smoothly (opp. to erased, slipped); also of an ordinary (e.g. a cross) having the extremities cut off so as not to extend to the boundaries of the shield.
| 1679 Plot Staffordsh. (1686) 297 Three childrens heads couped at the shoulders. 1705 Hearne Collect. 24 Nov., An Asses Head couped. 1864 Boutell Heraldry Hist. & Pop. xvii. (ed. 3) 274 A dexter hand couped at the wrist. 1882 Cussans Her. iv. 61 The Cross humetté, or couped, as its name implies, has its extremities cut off. |
| transf. 1678 Butler Hud. iii. iii. 214 Th' Ears, Eras'd, or Coup'd for Perjurers. |