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noun

Coupling n.

1.

The act of bringing or coming together; connection; sexual union.

2.

(Mach.) A device or contrivance which serves to couple or connect adjacent parts or objects; as, a belt coupling, which connects the ends of a belt; a car coupling, which connects the cars in a train; a shaft coupling, which connects the ends of shafts.

Box coupling, Chain coupling. See under Box, Chain.

Coupling box, a coupling shaped like a journal box, for clamping together the ends of two shafts, so that they may revolve together.

Coupling pin, a pin or bolt used in coupling or joining together railroad cars, etc.

verb

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

1.

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."

2.

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.)

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Etymology of 'Coupling'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Coupling" Quotes from Famous Books

... their movements to a track where a plug engine had just backed in with a light caboose car. There was no air brake attachment and the coupling was ...

— Ralph on the Overland Express - The Trials and Triumphs of a Young Engineer • Allen Chapman

... is best told in few words. I had not been at home one week before I found that rumor had been for some months coupling John Gray's name with the name of Mrs. Emma Long, a widow who had but just returned to——, after twelve years of married life in Cuba. John had known her in her girlhood, but there had never been any intimacy or even friendship between them. My sister, ...

— Saxe Holm's Stories • Helen Hunt Jackson

... had mentioned the name of Edith Dexter, always coupling it with that of Maurice, who she evidently believed was lurking with evil purposes around her home; and Dr. Grey was sorely perplexed to follow the thread that now and then appeared, but failed to guide him to any satisfactory solution of the mystery. He knew that ...

— Vashti - or, Until Death Us Do Part • Augusta J. Evans Wilson

... King's acquiescence in this proposal, though he called it a "great and painful sacrifice of his personal feelings." They sought to conciliate her acceptance of it by mentioning her in it by her title of "Queen," and by coupling with it a sanction to her appointment of her law-officers, an Attorney and Solicitor General, an act which could only be exercised by a Queen. And, though a part of the condition of her residence abroad ...

— The Constitutional History of England From 1760 to 1860 • Charles Duke Yonge

... road, but let us love like the first race of men, nearest allied to God, promiscuously they loved, and possessed, father and daughter, brother and sister met, and reaped the joys of love without control, and counted it religious coupling, and 'twas encouraged too by heaven itself: therefore start not (too nice and lovely maid) at shadows of things that can but frighten fools. Put me not off with these delays; rather say you but dissembled love ...

— Love-Letters Between a Nobleman and His Sister • Aphra Behn

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