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couper

Noun CEFR B1

Definitions

A dealer in horses or other livestock.

UK, obsolete

Equivalents

Françaiscouper

Examples

“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.”
“John Henderson, a cow couper in Swinton, Berwickshire, towards the close⟳ of the last⟳ century, was very fond of a dram.”

CEFR level

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This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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