[f. COUP sb.1, 2 or v.3]
1. = COUP sb.2 1, a box-cart.
1794. Statist. Acc. Scotl., XII. 185 (Jam.). In the year 1750, there were but two box-carts, or what is here called coup carts, in the parish [of St. Vigeans, Forfar], but at present there is no other kind made use of here.
1805. R. W. Dickson, Pract. Agric. (1807), I. 61. A close single-horse cart … sometimes termed a coup-cart.
1868. Atkinson, Cleveland Gloss.
1869. Lonsdale Gloss., Coup, Coup-cart, a dung-cart, a small cart.
2. A cart with a body that can be tilted, so that the load may be ‘couped’ out. (Chiefly Sc.)
1794. Agric. Surv. Berwicksh., 167 (Jam.). The body of the cowp-cart is attached to the shafts by a peculiar kind of hinges, which allow of elevating it before, either partially or entirely, to facilitate the discharge of its load backwards.
1799. J. Robertson, Agric. Perth, 100. Used in what are called coup-carts, i. e. when the box is moveable on a frame; and the contents can be discharged, without lifting the shafts.
1855. Robinson, Whitby Gloss., Coup, to tilt out the material from a ‘coup cart,’ or cart that turns up to be emptied.
