coopn.1
/kuːp/, U.S. /kup/ΘΚΠ
society > occupation and work > equipment > receptacle or container > basket > [noun]
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a1300 Floriz & Bl. 435 Cupen he let fulle of flures To strawen in þe maidenes bures..He let Floriz on þat on cupe go [ Abbotsf. Club ed. c1350, coupen, coupe].
c1320 Cast. Love 1278 Of þe relef þat hem leuede bi-fore, Twelf cupe-ful weoren vp i-bore.
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1865) I. 15 Þe releef of þe twelf cupes [v.r. kipes or lepes.].
a1387 J. Trevisa tr. R. Higden Polychron. (St. John's Cambr.) (1872) IV. 359 Paule was i-lete a doun in a cupe [sportâ] ouer þe wal.
2. A kind of basket placed over fowls when sitting or being fattened; a cage or pen of basketwork or the like for confining poultry, etc. See also hen coop n.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > [noun] > enclosure for poultry > chicken-coop
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chicken coop1687
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14.. False Fox in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell Reliquiæ Antiquæ (1845) I. 4 The fals fox camme unto oure cowpe, And there he made our gese to stowpe.
1530 J. Palsgrave Lesclarcissement 210/1 Coupe for capons, caige à chappons.
c1530 Pol. Rel. & L. Poems (1866) 36 Take iij Chekyns or .iiij...& put them in a coope to feede.
1577 W. Harrison Descr. Eng. (1877) ii. xiv. i. 265 To be caged up as in a coope.
1600 R. Surflet tr. C. Estienne & J. Liébault Maison Rustique i. xv. 101 They must be kept vnder a cowpe with the hen or capon.
1697 Countess D'Aunoy's Trav. (1706) 258 A great Coup, in which they feed poultry.
1744 T. Stack in Philos. Trans. 1739–40 (Royal Soc.) 41 392 I took Four strong Pullets, which I shut up in Coops.
1829 J. L. Knapp Jrnl. Naturalist 193 He has known it [the shrike] draw the weak young pheasants through the bars of the breeding coops.
1866 J. E. T. Rogers Hist. Agric. & Prices I. xvi. 339 Geese were either turned into stubble or fattened in coops.
3. A wickerwork basket used in catching fish: also called kipe n.
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > fish-trap > [noun] > basket
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the world > food and drink > hunting > fishing > fishing-tackle > other fishing equipment > [noun] > basket for keeping live fish
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1469 Sc. Act Jas. III (1597) §37 Salmond, Girsilles and trowtes, quhilk ar destroyed be cowpes..nettes, prynes set in rivers, that hes course to the Sea.
1691 J. Ray Coll. Eng. Words (ed. 2) 17 A Fish-coop is..a great hollow Vessel, made of Twigs, in which they take Fish upon Humber.
1786 W. Gilpin Observ. Picturesque Beauty (1788) II. 133 At this place salmon coops are placed; where all the fish, which enter the Esk, are taken.
1869 J. C. Atkinson Peacock's Gloss. Dial. Hundred of Lonsdale Coop, a hollow vessel made of twigs for taking eels.
1873 Act 36 & 37 Victoria c. 71 §17 Any fishing box, coop, apparatus, net, or mode of fishing..forming part of such weir.
4. A protecting grating about a tree, etc.
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the world > food and drink > farming > forestry or arboriculture > [noun] > protective grating or frame for tree
coop1745
tree-box1876
1745 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming (new ed.) vi. 76 If a Fence or Coop was at first set about each Hole.
5. transferred and figurative (from 2). A narrow place of confinement; a cage or prison.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > [noun] > place of confinement
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1579 E. Spenser Shepheardes Cal. Oct. 72 Sunnebright honour pend in shamefull coupe.
1594 R. Carew tr. T. Tasso Godfrey of Bulloigne v. 229 Armide appeared likewise with her troope, Where a burgage had beene their lodging coope.
1785 W. Cowper Task iii. 834 Such herds Of..vagrants, as make London..a crowded coop.
1850 R. W. Emerson Montaigne in Representative Men iv. 157 Why think to shut up all things in your narrow coop?
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a. slang. A prison.
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society > authority > punishment > imprisonment > prison > [noun]
quarternOE
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1785 Sessions Papers Sept. 1111/2 He had been in coop for a week.
1866 Lond. Misc. 3 Mar. 58/3 (Farmer) A cove as has..smelt the insides of all the coops in the three kingdoms.
1877 J. Greenwood Dick Temple (Farmer) You say that you have been in the coop as many times as I have.
1963 P. G. Wodehouse Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves xxiv. 180 I accompanied Constable Oates to the village coop.
b. U.S. Political slang. The place where electors were ‘cooped’.
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1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Feb. 6/2 They were made to vote the ticket of the party that controlled the ‘coop’. Our coop was in the rear of an engine-house on Calvert-street.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
coopn.3
A small heap, as of manure.
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the world > space > relative position > arrangement or fact of being arranged > state of being gathered together > an assemblage or collection > [noun] > mass formed by collection of particles > an accumulation > heap or pile > small
hippleOE
hotc1700
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1825 J. Jamieson Etymol. Dict. Sc. Lang. Suppl. (at cited word) A small heap; as, ‘ A coop of muck’.
1881 Gardeners' Chron. No. 411. 626 The raking of an adequate quantity of Oak and Chestnut leaves and carting them to the leaf-coop, with which to make up hotbeds, etc.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
coopv.1
/kuːp/, U.S. /kup/ 1. transitive. To put or confine (poultry, etc.) in a coop, pen, or narrow enclosure. Also with up.
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the world > food and drink > farming > animal husbandry > keeping birds > poultry-keeping > rear poultry [verb (transitive)] > confine
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1597 M. Drayton Englands Heroicall Epist. f. 44 v Nor will with Crowes be coop'd within a groue.
1791 J. Boswell Life Johnson anno 1728 I. 24 The flesh of animals who feed excursively, is allowed to have a higher flavour than that of those who are cooped up.
1830 J. Baxter Libr. Agric. & Hort. Knowl. 419 As soon as it is perceived that the geese are desirous of laying, coop them up under their roof.
1890 Daily News 26 Nov. 5/6 The..pigs and poultry were cooped or tethered on the outskirts of the camp.
2. figurative.1876 J. Weiss Wit, Humor, & Shakespeare iv. 136 He is hard to get fairly cooped in a corner.
a. transferred. To confine (persons) within small space; to shut up within irksomely narrow limits; to cage, cabin.In the Shakespeare quots. the meaning is apparently ‘To enclose for protection or defence’, in reference to one of the uses of a coop for poultry. This sense may also occur in other quotations.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > confine [verb (transitive)]
beloukOE
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1570 J. Foxe Actes & Monumentes (rev. ed.) I. 75/2 Their army..was cooped and shut in within the straightes.
1582 R. Stanyhurst tr. Virgil First Foure Bookes Æneis i. 3 Thee father almighty..Mewd vp theese reuelers coupt in strong dungeon hillish.
1595 W. Shakespeare Henry VI, Pt. 3 v. i. 112 I am not coopt vppe [1623 coop d] heere for defence.
1613 S. Purchas Pilgrimage i. xvi. 73 They had coped him in a corner of his kingdome.
a1616 W. Shakespeare King John (1623) ii. i. 25 That white-fac'd shore, Whose foot spurnes backe the Oceans roaring tides, And coopes from other lands her Ilanders.
1720 A. Pope tr. Homer Iliad V. xviii. 334 What, coop whole Armies in our Walls again?
1812 Ld. Byron Childe Harold: Cantos I & II ii. xxvii. 74 Sailors..Coop'd in their winged sea-girt citadel.
b. with up; also in, together.
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society > authority > subjection > restraint or restraining > restraint depriving of liberty > confinement > confine [verb (transitive)]
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1583 T. Stocker tr. Tragicall Hist. Ciuile Warres Lowe Countries ii. f.49v The Prince of Parma besieged the Citie of Mastright, and with suche force so straightly couped it vp.
1602 Hist. Eng. in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) II. 435 When he considered how he was couped in.
1626 J. Horsey Trav. in S. Purchas Pilgrimage (ed. 4) 985 Intreating he might be sent for and dispatched, beeing cooped vp and kept close as a prisoner.
1668 J. Dryden Secret-love v. i. 61 A straight place where they are all coupt up.
1760 J. Wesley Wks. (1872) III. 12 I was obliged once more to coop myself up in the Room.
1836 C. Thirlwall Hist. Greece III. xx. 155 Suddenly facing about, to coop him in, and capture the whole squadron.
1864 W. W. Skeat tr. J. L. Uhland Songs & Ballads 374 I've caught you cooped together, much honoured brotherhood!
1870 R. W. Emerson Society & Solitude 4 Coop up most men, and you undo them.
c. U.S. Political slang. (See quots.)
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1848–60 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms Cooping of Voters, collecting and confining them, several days previous to an election, in a house or on a vessel hired for the purpose. Here they are treated with good living and liquors, and at a proper day are taken to the polls, and voted, as it is called, for the party.
1889 in Pall Mall Gaz. 18 Feb. 6/2 Four of us, including [E. A.] Poe..were nabbed by a gang of men who were on the look out for voters to ‘coop’.
a. figurative. Of persons. Obsolete.
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1641 J. Milton Animadversions 55 The one is ever coopt up at his empty speculations.
1690 J. Locke Ess. Humane Understanding iv. xix. 354 They are cooped in close, by the Laws of their Countries.
1780 E. Burke Speech Bristol previous to Election 59 They feel themselves in a state of thraldom, they imagine that their souls are cooped and cabined in.
b. Of action, feeling, etc.
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1642 D. Rogers Naaman 198 That we cope all our Sabbath devotion, yea all our religion within the Church walls.
1643 Case of Affairs 5 Which yet did not so much coop up or curbe the regall power from any due worke or office.
a1764 R. Lloyd Poet. Wks. (1774) II. 25 What is his verse, but cooping sense Within an arbitrary fence.
1838 W. H. Prescott Hist. Reign Ferdinand & Isabella II. i. xviii. 181 The papal line of demarcation cooped up their enterprises within too narrow limits.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclosing or confining > enclose or confine [verb (transitive)]
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a1660 H. Hammond Serm. (1664) xvii. 283 The water is easily cooped up in a glass or bucket.
1748 B. Robins & R. Walter Voy. round World by Anson ii. xi. 255 The place is so cooped up with mountains, that it is scarcely possible to escape out of it.
1782 W. Gilpin Observ. River Wye (1798) 143 The river is cooped between two high hills.
5. To surround with a protecting grating or coop.
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being external > enclosing or enclosure > enclose [verb (transitive)] > with a grating
coop1631
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 379 Grated, or coped about with iron.
1631 J. Weever Anc. Funerall Monuments 388 One Tombe in the body of the Church coped with iron.
1745 W. Ellis Chiltern & Vale Farming (new ed.) vi. 74 The great Expence of Cooping and Fencing each Tree.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
† coopv.2
Obsolete or dialect. rare.
transitive. ‘To hoop, to bind with hoops’ (Jamieson); = cooper v.
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16.. Holland in Webster (1864) Shaken tubs..be new cooped.
17.. in Jacobite Relics (1821) II. 54 There was a cooper..He coopit a coggie for our gudwifie, And heigho ! but he coopit it braw.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2021).
coopint.
/kʊp/ 1. A call for domestic animals.
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a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Coop, a common word of invitation to domestic poultry..to come..to peck up the food thrown down for them. It is, perhaps, an abbreviation of the words come up.
1873 E. E. Hale His Level Best In front of the barn, from which we had already heard shouts of ‘Coop! Coop!’
1883 W. H. Cope Gloss. Hampshire Words Coop, a word used in calling horses; particularly when in the field they are enticed by a sieve of oats to be caught.
1888 S. O. Addy Gloss. Words Sheffield Coop, a call for cows.
2. coop or coop and seek (U.S.): the game of ‘hide and seek’.Coop is the call of the hider when he is ready.
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1884 J. N. Tarbox in Chicago Advance And then we play at coop and seek.
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