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Copple vs Hopple - What's the difference?

copple | hopple |

As nouns the difference between copple and hopple

is that copple is something rising in a conical shape; a hill rising to a point while hopple is a fetter for horses or cattle when turned out to graze.

As a verb hopple is

to impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hobble.

copple

English

Noun

(en noun)
  • Something rising in a conical shape; a hill rising to a point.
  • * Hakluyt
    • A low cape, and upon it a copple not very high.
    (Webster 1913)

    hopple

    English

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (chiefly, in the plural) A fetter for horses or cattle when turned out to graze.

    • Verb

    (hoppl)
  • To impede by a hopple; to tie the feet of (a horse or a cow) loosely together; to hobble.
  • (figurative) To entangle; to hamper.