English Explanatory Dictionary

Copestake

English dictionary entry

Meanings

name
  1. A surname originating as an occupation.

Word forms

Copestake Copestakes Capstick

Etymology

Occupational surname for a woodcutter, from Old French coper (“to cut”) + Middle English stikke (“stick, rod, twig”).

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