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 Cop n.
 1. The top of a thing; the head; a crest. [Obs.]
 Cop they used to call
 The tops of many hills.   --Drayton.
 2. A conical or conical-ended mass of coiled thread, yarn, or roving, wound upon a spindle, etc.
 3. A tube or quill upon which silk is wound.
 4. Mil. Arch. Same as Merlon.
 5. A policeman. [Slang]
 Cop waste, a kind of cotton waste, composed chiefly of remnants of cops from which the greater part of the yarn has been unwound.
    You had to be a good judge of what a man was like, and the English was copacetic. --John O'Hara
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