Sc. Also capie-hole, coppihool, coppiehoall. A school-boys’ game, in which the object is to throw a marble into a hole.
1605. Session Rec. Ayr, 24 March. To summon Thomas Smal for playing at ye coppihool in the Kirk-door.
1682. A. Peden, Lords Trump. (1720), 30 (Jam.). Adam … played it [his stock] at the Capie-hole one Morning with the Devil at Two or Three Throws of the Game.
1722. Life Sc. Rogue, 7, in Brand, Pop. Antiq. (1870), II. 304. I was … readier at … Cappy Hole than at my Book.
