north. dial. Also copy, 5 copstole. [of uncertain derivation.] A low stool.
14[?]. Burlesque Poem, in Rel. Ant., I. 86. Colrakus and copstolus, one gret whyle-barrous.
1807. J. Stagg, Poems (Cumbrld. dial.) 10. The breyde now on a coppy stuol Sits down.
1811. Willan, West Riding Gloss., Coppy, a low stool for a child.
1869. Lonsdale Gloss., Coppy, Copy, a small stool, generally a three-legged one.
1875. Lancashire Gloss., Coppy-stool.
1885. Mrs. Lynn Linton, Christ. Kirkland, I. iii. 57. His supreme pleasure was to sit on his ‘copy’ (a kind of stool).
