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First published 1937 (DOST Vol. I).
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Coupar, Cowpar(e, n. [e.m.E. coupar, ME. cowpare, var. of Couper. Cf. Cupar.]

1. A cooper.(a) 1434 Exch. R. IV. 585.
[Per Johannem Cowpare 1458 Ib. VI. 484.]
Pro … feodo cowparii pro eisdem (barellibus) 1497 Treas. Acc. I. 344.
To ane cowpar for mending and visiting of thir pipis 1512–3 Rentale Dunkeld. fol. 126.
Alloc. eid. pro liberationem factam carpentario alias lie cowpar de Blair 1531 Treas. Acc. V. 460.
To ane cowpar that girdet the punsiounis 1554 Edinb. B. Rec. II. 198.
Quhen ony schippis arryvis … ladynnit with tymmer, that thair be ane pairt thairof delyuerit … to the brethir of wrychtis and cowparis 1560–1 Edinb. Old Acc. I. 350.
To the cowparis for mending of tubbis 1641 Acts V. 562/2.
The haill friemen of masonis, boweris, cowparis [etc.](b) 1497 Treas. Acc. I. 347.
Item, feit sic like, to pas with the artailȝery, xij wrichtis and ane coupar for the powdir 1601 Elgin Rec. II. 95.
[The] searcharis this day delatis … ane Watsone the couparis dauchter beggand 1607–8 Misc. Spald. C. V. 136.
Gevin to Gilbert Blak, coupar, for fyve firlottis maid be him … to serve the townis tolhous 1695 Maxwell Mem. II. 344.
A poor Quaker, a coupar

2. Attrib. with barrel, craft, worklume. 1489 (1528) Reg. Great S. 120/1.
Maisteris of the cowpar craft within the said burgh 1562 (c 1650) Dundee B. Laws 26.
All the masters of the coupar craft within this brugh 1644 Edinb. Test. LXI. 41.
Certane cowpar worklumes perteining to the defunct 1663 Ib. LXXI. 103.
Ane old juster, and twa coupar barrellis