kop

plural kops

1. South AfricaA hill or mountain.

   […] 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.

   2012, William Manchester, Paul Reid, The Last Lion Box Set: Winston Spencer Churchill, 1874 - 1965, Little, Brown, →ISBN

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   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 […]

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

   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.

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

plural kops

1. rareRare spelling of cop (“dome, in armor”).

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

   1994, Archaeologia Cambrensis

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   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.

   1917, Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, Proceedings, page 134

plural Kops

1. UKA terrace at a football ground, originally for standing spectators, though all-seater stadia have been mandatory for larger UK clubs since 1994.