coupe-pâte, n.m., (—) dough-knife.
couper, v.a., to cut; to cut off, to dock, to lop, to strike off; to cut down; to cut out; to clip, to pare, to cut away, to geld; to cross, to get before; to dilute (milk, wine, with water); (milit.) to intercept; to divide, to intersect, to interrupt; to hinder; to impede, to get before; to strike; to geld; to cut up, to carve; to amputate; to chop. — menu; to mince. — un habit; to cut out a coat. — par tranches; to slice, to cut into slices. Les sanglots lui coupent la voix; her sobs stifle her utterance. — la bourse à quelqu’un; to pick any one’s pocket. — le cours d’une rivière; to interrupt the course of a river. — les vivres à une armée; to intercept the provisions of an army. — la parole à quelqu’un; to interrupt any one. Pour — court; to be brief, in short. — le chemin à quelqu’un; to stop anyone’s way. — la ligne; (milit.) to break through the line. — le sifflet à quelqu’un; (pop.) to cut anyone’s throat. — les vivres à quelqu’un; to stop anyone’s allowance. — un cheveu en quatre; to split hairs. — le câble; to take the decisive step. — l’herbe sous le pied; (fig.) to supplant anyone; to lay by the heels. — bras et jambes; (fig.) to dumfound. — chemin à un incendie, à un maladie; to stop the progress of a fire, of a disease.
se couper, v.r., to cut oneself; to be chafed; to cut; to wear out; to burst; to crack; to intersect, to intersect one another; to cross; to contradict oneself, to falter, to equivocate. Se — la gorge; to cut one’s throat. Se — la main; to cut one’s hand. Ce cuire s’est coupé; this leather has burst.
couper, v.n., to cut, to cut in (at cards); to chop. À qui à —? whose cut is it? — dans le vif; to cut to the quick. — court à quelqu’un; to cut any one short. — par le plus court; to take the shortest way.
coupe-racines, n.m., (plur. —) (agri.) root-cutter.
couperet (koo-prè), n.m., chopper, enameler’s file.
couperose (koo-prôz), n.f., copperas; (med.) stone-pock. — verte; green vitriol. — blanche; white vitriol. — bleue; blue vitriol.
couperosé, -e (koo-prô-zé), adj., blotched, pimpled.
coupe-tête, n.m., (n.p.) leap-frog.
coupeu-r, n.m., -se, n.f., cutter; player (lansquenet). — de bourses; pickpocket, cut-purse.