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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Quotation dates: 1554-1680
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Couper, Cowper, n. Also: coupper, cowpier; cuper. [e.m.E. and ME. couper, MDu. cuper, MLG. kuper. Cf. Coupar.] A cooper.Early examples in personal names are Cristiane Couper (1275 Liber Dryburgh 109) and Alanus Couper (1337 Rotuli Sc. 492/1).(a) 1554–5 Ayr Common Good Acc.
To ane cowper for four rubbovris to tak herene to Ed[inburgh] 1560–1 Edinb. Old Acc. I. 350.
To ane cowper for twa bukatts 1579 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs I. 100.
The … falset committit … be the cowperis, pakkaris of salmound, throuche pakking of roustie … salmound fische 1595 Edinb. D. Guild Acc. 570.
To ane cowper for mending of the irne bucket … off the kirkȝand 1618 Montgomery Mem. 282.
Robert Wylie, cowper 1646 Irvine Mun. II. 64.
Joyners, carpenters, squarmen, and cowpers(b) 1558 Rentale Dunkeld. 353.
To ane couper … for makin xxviii punschuns 1570 Rec. Convention of Royal Burghs I. 23.
That … euer ilk couper mark his barrell with his awin birning yrne 1618 Master of Works Accounts XV. ii. 51.
To a couper for dressing the scaffels rounges to a leder 1641 Acts V. 505/2.
That na barrellis be soner maid and blawin bot the couperis birne be set … on the tapone staff thairof 1651 Aberd. B. Rec. IV. 119.
The … counsell giues libertie … to the couperis of the brughe of Abirdein to reedifie … the couperis dask within the auld kirk in forme of pewes 1680 Foulis Acc. Bk. 51.
To … Jon Cuningham, couper in Dean, for helping the brewing loomes(c)1558–9 Edinb. Old Acc. I. 280.
To the cuper of the Abbay that mendet the tersellis that lekkit 1570 Lanark B. Rec. 49.
David Blakie, deken for the cuperis
