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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

[D.

koopman

, fr.

koopen

to buy. See

Verb.

A chapman; a dealer; a merchant.

[Obs.]

He would have sold his part of paradise
For ready money, had he met a

copeman

B. Jonson.

Noun.

A chapman. [Not used.]

copeman ‎(plural copemen)

(obsolete) A chapman; a dealer; a merchant.
He would have sold his part of paradise / For ready money, had he met a copeman. — Ben Jonson.