Obs. exc. dial. [f. COP sb.2 + HEAD.]

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  1.  A high peaked head.

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  Cf. cop-, copped-crowned, s.v. COP sb.2 8, COPPED 5.

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  2.  ‘A crest of feathers or tuft of hair on the head of an animal’ (Halliwell); a crested head.

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  Cf. COPPLE, COPPLE-CROWN.

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  † 3.  To play cop-head over: app. to turn head over heels. Obs.

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1671.  Blagrave, Astrol. Physick, 174. In her fits she … would sometimes leap about with her arms and legs like a Frog, sometimes she would play cop-head over and over.

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  Hence Cop-headed, having a cop-head, or high tapering head.

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1519.  Horman, Vulg., 31/1. Homer … sayth that he [Thersyte] was streyte in the shulders … and copheedyd [vertice acuminato] lyke a gygge. Ibid., 31/2. A copheedyd felowe may haue wytte ynough, cilo satis potest sapere.

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1881.  Dickinson, Cumbrld. Gloss. (2nd Suppl.), Copt, Cop-heedit, [having] a peaked crown, as many polled cattle have.

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