ppl. a. In 6–7 coupt. [f. COOP v.1 + -ED.] Confined in or as in a coop; caged, shut up.

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1613.  R. C., Table Alph. (ed. 3), Coupe, kept within certaine limits.

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1645.  G. Daniel, Poems, Wks. 1878, II. 106. The cooped lion has broke through.

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1676.  Shadwell, Libertine, III. A Spanish wife has a worse life than a coop’d chicken.

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