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n. A floating grog shop supplying the North Sea fishing industry.

n. One who copes.

n. An obsolete spelling of copper.

n. A seller; a dealer.

n. A miner: so called from his working at a certain price or cope per ton or load of ore mined.

n. A kind of floating grog-shop, stocked with indifferent liquors, tobacco, etc., which accompanies or plies its trade among the North Sea fishing-fleets.

"Reader, the mode of dealing with the abominable "coper" traffic referred to by these men has at last happily been adopted, and the final blow has been dealt by the simple expedient of underselling the floating grog-shops in the article of tobacco."

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