ppl. a. Obs. Also 7 copled, coppild, -elled. [f. COPPLE + -ED.]
1. Crested, furnished with a crest or tuft.
1600. Surflet, Countrie Farme, I. xxii. 123. The rough footed or coppild [pigeons] … are too mournful.
1635. Swan, Spec. M., viii. § 1 (1643), 363. A Saw-fish, having an hard copled head with teeth like a saw.
2. Rising conically to a summit or point.
1600. Hakluyt, Voy., III. 606 (R.). Without this cape about a league there is a little coppled rocke.
1647. H. More, Song of Soul, I. I. xxv. So School-boyes do aspire With coppell’d hat to quelme the Bee.
a. 1728. Woodward, Nat. Hist. Fossils, I. (1729), II. 68 (J.). Some being flatter on the top, others more coppled.
