cop

IPA(Pronunciation)

/kɒp/

Noun

obsolete

(crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine. / (obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill. / (obsolete) The crown (of the head); also the head itself.

Japanese Meaning

紡績機で、紡錘に巻き付けられた糸玉 / （古語）丘や山の頂、頂上 / （古語）頭の冠部、または頭そのもの

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The weaver carefully placed the last cop on the spindle before starting the loom.

Google Translation / DeepL Translation

織り手は機を動かす前に、慎重に最後の糸玉を軸に置いた。

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Sense（1）

(crafts) The ball of thread wound on to the spindle in a spinning machine.

Sense（2）

(obsolete) The top, summit, especially of a hill.

Cop they use to call / The tops of many hills.

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Sense（3）

(obsolete) The crown (of the head); also the head itself.

The stature is bowed down in age, the cop is depressed.

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Sense（4）

A roughly dome-shaped piece of armor, especially one covering the shoulder, the elbow, or the knee.

[…] the elbow cop or coudiere for the elbow; and the rerebrace or arriere-bras for the upper arm. The shoulder cop, pauldron or epauliere which covered the shoulder, and often a large part of the breast and back, was usually considered a part of the arm guard.

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Sense（5）

A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.

Sense（6）

(architecture, military) A merlon.

cops

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