Obs. [cf. COPPLING ppl. a. 3; also COBBLE-STONE, COGGLE-STONE.]
1728. Woodward, Fossils, 12–3 (cited by Johnson), Copple-Stones … are Lumps and Fragments of Stone or Marble, broke from the adjacent Cliffs, rounded by being bowl’d, and tumbled to and again by the Action of the Water.
