Hooping coppin
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- Copenhagen
- coppin: conical mass of thread, yarn, etc., wound on a spindle.
- hooping cough' or whooping cough: highly contagious disease of the respiratory system, usually affecting children,
- "Gasworks. Whooping cough they say it cures:" Ulysses.6.121
