dial. trans. To throw, toss, ‘chuck’ (East Anglia, Kent, Sussex).
1806. Bloomfield, Wild Flowers, 36. I could have cop’t them at their pates.
a. 1825. Forby, Vocab. E. Anglia, Cop, to throw something upwards, in order to reach a mark at some moderate distance.
1845. P. Parley’s Annual, VI. 38. A pancake nicely copt, as the Suffolk people have it, who are reported … to throw a pancake up the chimney, then go to the street door, and catch it without smutting it.
1873. Parish, Sussex Dial., Cop, to throw.
1887. in Kentish Gloss.
Hence Cop-halfpenny sb.
a. 1825. Forby, Voc. E. Anglia, Cop-Halfpenny, the game more generally called chuck-farthing.
