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verb

Couple v. t. (past & past part. coupled; pres. part. coupling)

To link or tie, as one thing to another; to connect or fasten together; to join. "Huntsman, I charge thee, tender well my hounds,... And couple Clowder with the deep-mouthed brach."

To join in wedlock; to marry. (Colloq.) "A parson who couples all our beggars."

Couple v. i. To come together as male and female; to copulate. (Obs.)

adjective

coupled adj.

Joined together especially in a pair or pairs.

Synonyms: conjugate, conjugated.

Connected by a physical link, as railway cars or trailer trucks. Opposite of unconnected or unlinked

Synonyms: joined, linked.

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Etymology of 'Coupled'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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... the day after to-morrow, - some time after dusk, - and ask for my private clerk, you'll find he has a draft for you. I haven't got time to say anything more just now, unless,' - he hesitated, for, coupled with a strong desire to glitter for once in all his glory in the eyes of his former companion, was a distrust of his appearance, which might be more shabby than he could tell by that feeble light, - 'unless you'd like to come to the dinner to-morrow. I ...

— Master Humphrey's Clock • Charles Dickens

... or Astarte (identical with our star), which was the principal goddess of the Phoenicians; and we believe she was originally the goddess of the moon. This is doubted by a modern writer, who says, "Baal is constantly coupled with Astarte; and the more philosophical opinion is that this national god and goddess were the lord and lady of Phoenicia, rather than the sun and moon: for to a people full of political life the sun and moon would have been themselves representatives, while a Divine ...

— Moon Lore • Timothy Harley

... Seth's father. Clarence Richmond, a quiet passionate man extraordinarily admired by his neighbors, had been killed in a street fight with the editor of a newspaper in Toledo, Ohio. The fight concerned the publication of Clarence Richmond's name coupled with that of a woman school teacher, and as the dead man had begun the row by firing upon the editor, the effort to punish the slayer was unsuccessful. After the quarryman's death it was found that much of the money left to him had been squandered ...

— Winesburg, Ohio • Sherwood Anderson

... states had attained their object, and yet it had been obtained in a manner that left the claimant States satisfied. The project for which Maryland had contended was realized, with the difference that Congress accepted the Northwest as a gift coupled with conditions, instead of taking it as an unconditional right. The lands became part of the Federal domain, and were nationalized so far as they could be under the Confederation; but there was no national treasury into which to turn the proceeds from the sale until ...

— The Winning of the West, Volume Three - The Founding of the Trans-Alleghany Commonwealths, 1784-1790 • Theodore Roosevelt

... was bowed with shame and wrath. Life looked too black a thing to be endured. The punishment was bad enough, but to be coupled in correction with Seesaw Simpson was beyond ...

— Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm • Kate Douglas Wiggin

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