Couper

noun

Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    A dealer in horses or other livestock. UK, obsolete

    "I think the Yorkshire story of the farmer who sold his old horse to a couper at a fair, then got very drunk on his good bargain, and bought him back at the end of the day with painted legs and filed teeth as a young horse, might have a kindred story among Daffodil-bulb buyers."

Etymology

From coup (“to exchange, barter”) + -er.

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