• (a.) Cut off smoothly, as distinguished from erased; -- used especially for the head or limb of an animal. See Erased.
Couped adjective [ French couper to cut.] (Her.) Cut off smoothly, as distinguished from erased; -- used especially for the head or limb of an animal. See Erased . 
In heraldry, couped means cut off smoothly, as distinguished from erased and is especially used to describe the way the head or limb of an animal is displayed.
(Cowped?) A dialect word for a sheep which has rolled on it's back and because of fleece or terrain cannot get back on it's feet.