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from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A horse-dealer.
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Examples
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Our politicals first had word of him last autumn at Ghuznee; he came over the Khyber disguised as an Afridi horse-coper, to Peshawar.
Fiancée 2010
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We have talked together some four or five evenings now, and for all I am a horse-coper I can still, as the saying is, see holiness beyond the legs of a horse.
Kim 2003
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Our politicals first had word of him last autumn at Ghuznee; he came over the Khyber disguised as an Afridi horse-coper, to Peshawar.
Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975
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Our politicals first had word of him last autumn at Ghuznee; he came over the Khyber disguised as an Afridi horse-coper, to Peshawar.
Flashman In The Great Game Fraser, George MacDonald, 1925- 1975
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At last it thawed, and a messenger got through the half-flooded roads; a horse-coper from Susa, who came for the reward.
The Persian Boy Renault, Mary 1972
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At first Edward had better luck with his Lieutenant, a certain horse-coper or dealer.
Red Cap Tales Stolen from the Treasure Chest of the Wizard of the North Samuel Rutherford Crockett
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In my old clothes I must have appeared like some second-class bookie or seedy horse-coper.
Mr. Standfast John Buchan 1907
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"What can you guess what Maximus thinks, you old horse-coper?"
Puck of Pook's Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900
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We have talked together some four or five evenings now, and for all I am a horse-coper I can still, as the saying is, see holiness beyond the legs of a horse.
Kim Rudyard Kipling 1900
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“What can you guess what Maximus thinks, you old horse-coper?”
Puck of Pook’s Hill Rudyard Kipling 1900
chained_bear commented on the word horse-coper
"'Tell me, Mr Riley,' said Stephen, 'is there ever an honest horse-coper in this town? Or at least one that merits Purgatory rather than Hell? I saw a yard called Wilkins Brothers with some animals in it, but they did not look quite wholesome to me.'
"'Sure they are only purple dromedaries, sir.'
"'Ah? They looked quite like horses to me...'
"'I meant the Wilkins brothers, sir. I take it your honour is not in the penal line? ... Here in the colony by purple dromedaries we mean little small bungling pickpockets, jackeens that get transported for robbing the poor-box or a blind man's tray.'"
--Patrick O'Brian, The Nutmeg of Consolation, 323
March 9, 2008