ppl. a. In 6–7 coupt. [f. COOP v.1 + -ED.] Confined in or as in a coop; caged, shut up.
1613. R. C., Table Alph. (ed. 3), Coupe, kept within certaine limits.
1645. G. Daniel, Poems, Wks. 1878, II. 106. The cooped lion has broke through.
1676. Shadwell, Libertine, III. A Spanish wife has a worse life than a coop’d chicken.
