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coupler (s.xii3/4)
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coupler (s.xii3/4)

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copler,  cupler  
  FEW:  copula 2/ii,1158a Gdf:  coupler 2,335b GdfC:  coupler 9,221c TL: copler 2,833 DEAF:  cople (copler)  DMF:  coupler  TLF:  coupler  OED:  couple v.  MED:  couplen v.  DMLBS:  copulare 488b

v.trans.

1to couple, leash together: 
( c.1185; MS: s.xiiim )  Ses berners fet ses chens cupler  Ipom BFR 4484
♦to couple, link: 
( s.xiiex; MS: c.1335 )  Bien furent entre eus couplés De parage e de beautez  Amis ANTS 179
( c.1230; MS: 1275-85 )  Lé cors cuplent (var. emplent) quatre elemenz  Pet Phil 1989
( s.xiiiex; MS: 1307-15 )  silence et esperance sunt couplez ensemble  Ancren2 186.22
( 1304 )  il poent coupler les deuz (=points of an answer) asemble  YBB 32-33 Ed I 289
♦lawto join in matrimony: 
( c.1290 )  ele ne fut unques a ly par leal matrimoine couplee (var. acuplé; complé) (l. couuplé)  Fet assaver 165
( 1311 )  coplé a ly en leau matrimonie  YBB Ed II xi 38
♦to tie, join: 
( s.xiii1/4; MS: s.xiiiex )  'Les cheveruns de nos mesuns de cedre sunt coplie'  Chant Chanz 784
2mil.to join in battle: 
( s.xii3/4; MS: s.xiv2 )  Jamés ne serray lez si serrom ajusté Corps contre corps la bataille couplé  Rom Chev ANTS 5278
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiiiex )  cest porte gardez Tant qe sums revenu et ové Sarazins couplez  Dest Rome1 706

v.intrans.

1to copulate: 
( s.xiii2/4; MS: s.xiii2 )  il (=married couple) poent charnelement cupler sanz mortel pecché  Mirour Egl 41.52
2mil.to join battle (with): 
( s.xiiim; MS: s.xiiiex )  Quant S. out bien ové Sarrazins couplee  Dest Rome1 1059

v.refl.

1to join together: 
( s.xiiiin; MS: s.xiii2/4 )  si curage e reisun Tant bien se sunt cuplé en un […]  S Clem ANTS 7924
2mil.to join battle (with): 
( s.xii2; MS: s.xii3/3 )  Ne te poz pas a lui cupler, kar tu es vadlez e il est un merveillus bers  Liv Reis1 34

p.p. as a.

leashed, yoked together: 
( c.1200; MS: s.xivin )  li brachet trestuz cuplé  S Osith 565
( MS: s.xiii/xiv )  siniugi: (L) cuplé (var. (D: xiii/xiv) decouplés)  TLL ii 74
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