Cooper

Quick meaning: Cooper is a noun meaning A craftsman who makes and repairs barrels and similar wooden vessels such as casks, buckets and tubs.

Meaning

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

More Meanings

1. (now rare) To make and repair barrels etc.
2. (transitive, slang, obsolete) To forge or imitate (writing).
3. (transitive, slang, obsolete) To intentionally injure (a racehorse) to spoil its chances of winning.
4. Alternative form of coper (“floating grog shop”).
5. Alternative form of coper (“operate as floating grog shop”).
6. (obsolete) A drink of half stout and half porter.

Example Sentences

[…] though, owing to his forged signatures having been too often detected, he was declared to be "a duffer at coopering a monekur."

Every design that villainy could suggest was had recourse to in the hopes of nobbling Wild Dayrell; but never being left for an hour by either his trainer or jockey, he escaped the intended 'coopering', even when the lynchpins of the wheels of his van had been tampered with.

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.

Word Forms

• coopers
• coopering
• coopered

Related Words

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