cooper

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːpɚ/

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• Rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)

From coop +‎ -er.

cooper (countable and uncountable, plural coopers)

1. A craftsman who makes and repairs barrels and similar wooden vessels such as casks, buckets and tubs.

   Hypernym: barrelmaker

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 5, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC:

     They were nearly all whalemen; chief mates, and second mates, and third mates, and sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea blacksmiths, and harpooneers, and ship keepers; a brown and brawny company, with bosky beards; an unshorn, shaggy set, all wearing monkey jackets for morning gowns.

2. (obsolete) A drink of half stout and half porter.

cooper (third-person singular simple present coopers, present participle coopering, simple past and past participle coopered)

1. (now rare) To make and repair barrels etc.

• broad cooper
• cooperage
• wine cooper

cooper (plural coopers)

1. Alternative form of coper (“floating grog shop”)

cooper (third-person singular simple present coopers, present participle coopering, simple past and past participle coopered)

1. Alternative form of coper (“operate as floating grog shop”)