Definition of coup

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Coup (n.) A sudden stroke; an unexpected device or stratagem; -- a term used in various ways to convey the idea of promptness and force.

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Yoke :: Yoke (v. t.) To couple; to join with another.
Infare :: Infare (n.) A house-warming; especially, a reception, party, or entertainment given by a newly married couple, or by the husband upon receiving the wife to his house..
Villanelle :: Villanelle (n.) A poem written in tercets with but two rhymes, the first and third verse of the first stanza alternating as the third verse in each successive stanza and forming a couplet at the close..
Cast :: Cast (n.) A flight or a couple or set of hawks let go at one time from the hand.
Pairing :: Pairing (v. i.) The act or process of uniting or arranging in pairs or couples.
Coup :: Coup (n.) A sudden stroke; an unexpected device or stratagem; -- a term used in various ways to convey the idea of promptness and force.
Key :: Key (n.) A bar, pin or wedge, to secure a crank, pulley, coupling, etc., upon a shaft, and prevent relative turning; sometimes holding by friction alone, but more frequently by its resistance to shearing, being usually embedded partly in the shaft and partly in the crank, pulley, etc..
Pair :: Pair (n.) Two of a sort; a span; a yoke; a couple; a brace; as, a pair of horses; a pair of oxen..
Pair :: Pair (n.) A married couple; a man and wife.
Stapedial :: Stanzaic (a.) Pertaining to, or consisting of, stanzas; as, a couplet in stanzaic form..
Quadrille :: Quadrille (n.) A dance having five figures, in common time, four couples of dancers being in each set..
Dragbolt :: Dragbolt (n.) A coupling pin. See under Coupling.
Rattle :: Rattle (v. i.) To drive or ride briskly, so as to make a clattering; as, we rattled along for a couple of miles..
Drawbar :: Drawbar (n.) An openmouthed bar at the end of a car, which receives a coupling link and pin by which the car is drawn. It is usually provided with a spring to give elasticity to the connection between the cars of a train..
Dyad :: Dyad (n.) Two units treated as one; a couple; a pair.
Couple-close :: Couple-close (n.) A diminutive of the chevron, containing one fourth of its surface. Couple-closes are generally borne one on each side of a chevron, and the blazoning may then be either a chevron between two couple-closes or chevron cottised..
Couple :: Couple (v.) To join in wedlock; to marry.
Couple :: Couple (a.) A male and female associated together; esp., a man and woman who are married or betrothed..
Doublet :: Doublet (a.) Two of the same kind; a pair; a couple.
Pair :: Pair (v. i.) To be joined in paris; to couple; to mate, as for breeding..
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