Now dial. [from COP sb.2 II.]
1. Trans. To pile up in a tumulus, heap or mound; to bank up.
a. 1552. Leland, Collect. (1774), II. 521. A great Hepe of Stones layed coppid up where he was buried.
1605. Stow, Ann., 101. A great heape of stones was laide copped vp where Hubba was buried.
1869. Lonsdale Gloss., To cop up a fence, to set up a fence.
1873. Parish, Sussex Dial., Cop, to heap anything up.
1887. in Kentish Dial.
2. To put up unbound corn or hay in ‘cops.’ (Now in Kent and Sussex.)
1581. Act 23 Eliz., c. 10 § 4. Before … such Corn or Grain shall be shocked, cocked, hilled or copped.
1581. Lambarde, Eiren., IV. iv. (1588), 444. In any ground where any corne or graine did then grow, or before it was shocked or copped.
1891. J. M. Cowper (in letter). [In Kent] when rain threatened, the barley or oats were hurriedly copped, as hay is now, to save as much as possible from being wetted.
3. ‘To plough in ridges for planting’ (Radnor Gloss.).
