copeman

From Dutch koopman, from koopen (“to buy”). See cope, chapman.

• IPA^(key): /ˈkoʊpmən/

copeman (plural copemen)

1. (obsolete) A tradesman; a dealer; a merchant.

   Synonym: chapman

   • 1605 (first performance), Ben[jamin] Jonson, Ben: Ionson His Volpone or The Foxe, [London]: […] [George Eld] for Thomas Thorppe, published 1607, →OCLC, (please specify the Internet Archive page):

     He would have sold his part of paradise / For ready money, had he met a cope-man.

• “copeman”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Compean, compane