Coop

Quick meaning: Coop is a noun meaning A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.

Meaning

A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.

More Meanings

1. A wickerwork basket (kipe) or other enclosure for catching fish.
2. (figuratively, slang) A narrow place of confinement, a cage; a jail, a prison.
3. An obstacle for a horse to jump over, shaped like an A-frame.
4. (transitive) To keep in a coop.
5. (transitive) To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp.
6. (transitive, intransitive, politics, historical) To unlawfully confine one or more voters to prevent them from casting their ballots in an election.
7. (obsolete) A barrel or cask for holding liquids.

Example Sentences

"Well," said Calvin, "we could go over to the chicken coop this afternoon when all the hens are inside laying eggs. We might find some clues."

coop. A (gen., from ca. 1880, a country-town) prison: 1785, Sessions Papers of the Old Bailey, Sept., p. 1111, 'He has been in coop for a week'; […]

The rivers and estuaries of the country still abounded in fish, and the right of salmon-fishing by nets or "yairs" (coops) was jealously guarded by land-holders.

Poorly ventilated coops are likely to result in losses by suffocation, particularly during hot weather, when the coops are overcrowded. The bottom of the coop should be built solid of one-half-inch boards to prevent the birds' toes from sticking through and being injured.

Word Forms

• coops
• cooping
• cooped

Synonyms for coop

Depending on context, synonyms include cage, henhouse, hencoop.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include henhouse, hencoop, cage, broody, nest, chicken.

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