Kopとは 意味・読み方・使い方

名詞

kop (plural kops)

1. (South Africa) A hill or mountain.
   • 2012, William Manchester, Paul Reid, The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965, Little, Brown, →ISBN:

     […] a zigzag line of Lee-Enfield flashes, and a charge which took the kop at a cost of ten casualties. The victors held the key to the Ladysmith lock.

   • 2014, Colin D. Heaton, Four-War Boer: The Century and Life of Pieter Arnoldus Krueler, Casemate, →ISBN:

     Within three hours, we took the kop. The dead and wounded were everywhere.
     The Boers had taken the kop, collected their prisoners and had suffered very few casualties. However, they did not have the strength to hold the prisoners […]

   • 2019, Christiaan Rudolf De Wet, Three Years' War, Good Press:

     A party of burghers, under Commandant Nel, of Kroonstad, were ordered to station themselves on a kop with a flat top, called Swartbooiskop, an hour and a half to the south of Nicholson's Nek.

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• koppie

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名詞

kop (plural kops)

1. Rare spelling of cop (“dome, in armor”).
   • 1917, Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, Proceedings, page 134:

     The solerets are wide-toed, […] ; the wings of the elbow and knee-kops small. The inner bends of the elbow joints are furnished with a pliable protection of numerous very narrow plates.

   • 1994, Archaeologia Cambrensis:

     1. Elbow Kop with rope-cable border.
     2. Part of left Pauldron (shoulder piece) with similar border.