coopern.1
/ˈkuːpə/, U.S. /ˈkupər/ 1.
a. A craftsman who makes and repairs wooden vessels formed of staves and hoops, as casks, buckets, tubs.A dry cooper makes casks, etc., to hold dry goods, a wet cooper those to contain liquids, a white cooper pails, tubs, and the like for domestic or dairy use. See also butt cooper n. at butt n.4 Compounds, etc.
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of containers or receptacles > [noun] > maker of casks or cooper
cooperc1415
trusser1535
hooper1552
tubman1677
tubber1825
tub-thumper1872
barrel-maker1883
c1415 York Myst. Introd. 20 Coupers.
c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 650 Hic cuparius, cowpare.
c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 686 Hic cuperius, a cowper.
1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. iii. 93 The other ben coupers.
1520 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Paed to the couper for new bottomyng of a bukket.
1523 Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII c. 2 The misteries..of smithes, joigners, or coupars.
1589 Pappe with Hatchet (1844) 16 Now you talke of a cooper, Ile tell you a tale of a tubb.
1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures (1663) lvi. 221 He had in his hand an Hatchet in the form of a Coopers Addis.
1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. 63 Nailed with Coopers Nails.
1720 London Gaz. No. 5874/4 Michael Morgatroid, of Ripon, Cowper.
1724 London Gaz. No. 6249/10 John Higgs..Turner and Wet-Cooper.
1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 161 The ‘Dry-cooper’ is employed in making sugar hogsheads and other casks.
1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 43 The coopers..now tightening hoops, and now slackening them.
b. On board ship: One who looks to the repair of casks and other vessels.
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1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 5 The Cowper is to looke to the caske, hoopes and twigges, to staue or repaire the buckets, Baricoes, Cans, steepe tubs.
1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Cooper, a rating for a first-class petty officer, who repairs casks, etc.
c. From the practices of the journeymen coopers employed on vessels in the Thames, the word acquired in the end of the 18th cent. an evil connotation.
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1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames 65 No inconsiderable portion of the pillage fell to the share of Journeymen Coopers..necessary to repair casks and packages, which have suffered injury in the stowage. They have even been known to break hogsheads wilfully to obtain plunder.
1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames 64 Coopers, Revenue Officers, and the Ship's Crew all participated in the spoil.
1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xviii. 126 Then we've the Coopers and Bumboat men, and the Rat-catchers and the Scuffle Hunters, and the River Pirates..all living by their wits.
2. One engaged in the trade of sampling, bottling, or retailing wine; a wine-cooper.
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society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in food and drink > in liquor
wine-merchantc950
vintnerc1430
cooperc1503
merchant vintner1532
beer-monger1622
wine-cooper1635
firkin-man1706
brandy-man1723
brandy-merchant1771
gin spinner1778
liqueur merchant1801
almacenista1846
liquor-dealer1859
négociant1910
1465 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 285 Paid for caryage of a hoggeshed of wyne into his place at London, viij. d. Item to the cowper the same tyme, iiij. d.]
c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xxxi v/1 Wher as the cowpers of his Cite haue vsed and dayly vse to colour straungers goodis as in taking vpon them Malmeseis and other wynes belongyng to strangers to bee their owne.
1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) at Cannister A certain Instrument which Coopers use in the racking of the Wine.
1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 162 The Wine-Cooper is employed in drawing off, bottling and packing wine, etc.
3. ? A six- (or twelve-) bottle basket, used in wine cellars.[Probably from its use by wine-coopers.]
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the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [noun] > wine-cellar or store > stand or basket in
bin1758
cooper1817
1817 T. L. Peacock Melincourt II. xx. 80 Give me a roaring fire and a six bottle cooper of claret.
1829 W. H. Maxwell Stories Waterloo: F. Kennedy He and the ambassador having discussed a cooper of port within a marvellous short period.
1876 J. Grant One of Six Hundred lii. 436 And a rare cooper of old port Davie Binns shall set abroach.
4. A mixture composed half of stout and half of porter. (So called in London, and some other places: see quot. 1873.)
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the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > mixed drinks of ale or beer > [noun]
three-threads1698
pap-in1748
half-and-half1756
porter cup1790
shandygaff1853
mixed ale1864
cooper1871
black and tan1881
four-half1884
mother-in-law1884
shandy1888
smiler1892
mild-and-bitter1933
red-eye1960
1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant I. viii. 252 Vast hunches of bread and meat and stone jars of ‘cooper’, being the favourite form of refreshment.
1873 Slang Dict. Cooper, ‘stout half and half’, i.e. half stout and half porter. Derived from the coopers at breweries being allowed so much stout and so much porter a day, which they take mixed.
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cooper-stuff n.
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1659 in Rowley (Mass.) Early Rec. (1894) 104 The Decay of usefull timber for Cowper stuff.
1801 in C. Cist Cincinnati in 1841 (1841) 183 Charles Faran advertises for cooper-stuff.
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cooper-shop n. cooper's shop.
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1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. (1682) x. 444 All the Cowper-shops, and dwelling-Houses..adjoyning to the Town's Wall.
1827 B. Drake & E. D. Mansfield Cincinnati in 1826 viii. 65 Eleven cooper shops 48 men.
1894 H. Frederic Copperhead 55 He had been a well-to-do man..with a big cooper-shop.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
coopern.2
One who coops or confines. (With quot. 1889 cf. coop v.1 2c.)
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1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms 168/2 To coop voters is to collect them as it were in a coop or cage, so as to be sure of their services on election day. Liquor dealers are the usual ‘coopers’ for obvious reasons.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).
cooperv.
/ˈkuːpə/, U.S. /ˈkupər/ 1. transitive. To make or repair (casks, etc.); to furnish or secure with hoops.
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society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > cask-making > make casks [verb (transitive)]
cooper1746
1746 in W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate (1757) 8 One, two, or three Months..expiring before they are cooper'd and made tight.
1834 Fraser's Mag. 10 32 Coopered with brass hoops weather-tight.
1840 H. Cockton Life Valentine Vox (1856) 177 ‘I'll cooper it up’..And he began to repair the cask.
2. To put or stow in casks.
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the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > into or as into other specific receptacles
sackc1405
pokea1425
pipe1465
barrel1466
cask1562
bag1570
vessel1577
basket1582
crock1594
cade1599
maund1604
impoke1611
incask1611
inflask1611
insatchel1611
desk1615
pot1626
cooper1746
kit1769
vat1784
pannier1804
vial1805
flask1855
tub1889
ampoule1946
1746 in W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate (1757) 42 Many a Cart-Load..brought into the..Victualling Office, and Slaughtered, Salted, Pack'd, Cooper'd, etc.
1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 210 The whalers..resort thither to ‘cooper their oil’.
3. intransitive. To work as a cooper, do cooper's work. (In modern dictionaries.)
4. transitive. To ‘rig up’, furbish up, put into a presentable form. colloquial.
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1828 W. Scott Jrnl. 4 June (1941) 260 I employd my leisure..to peruse Mure of Auchendrane's trial, out of which something might be cooperd up for the publick.
1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. ix. 244 When I was washed and cleansed, and fairly coopered up.
5. To ‘do for’, spoil. slang. (Cf. cooper n.1 1c.)
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the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > bring to ruin or put an end to
undoc950
shendOE
forfarea1000
endc1000
to do awayOE
aquenchc1175
slayc1175
slayc1175
stathea1200
tinea1300
to-spilla1300
batec1300
bleschea1325
honisha1325
leesea1325
wastec1325
stanch1338
corrumpa1340
destroy1340
to put awayc1350
dissolvec1374
supplanta1382
to-shend1382
aneantizec1384
avoidc1384
to put outa1398
beshenda1400
swelta1400
amortizec1405
distract1413
consumec1425
shelfc1425
abroge1427
downthringc1430
kill1435
poisonc1450
defeat1474
perish1509
to blow away1523
abrogatea1529
to prick (also turn, pitch) over the perka1529
dash?1529
to bring (also send) to (the) pot1531
put in the pot1531
wipea1538
extermine1539
fatec1540
peppera1550
disappoint1563
to put (also set) beside the saddle1563
to cut the throat of1565
to throw (also turn, etc.) over the perch1568
to make a hand of (also on, with)1569
demolish1570
to break the neck of1576
to make shipwreck of1577
spoil1578
to knock on (in) the head (also rarely at head)1579
cipher1589
ruinate1590
to cut off by the shins1592
shipwreck1599
exterminate1605
finish1611
damnify1612
ravel1614
braina1616
stagger1629
unrivet1630
consummate1634
pulverizea1640
baffle1649
devil1652
to blow up1660
feague1668
shatter1683
cook1708
to die away1748
to prove fatal (to)1759
to knock up1764
to knock (or kick) the hindsight out or off1834
to put the kibosh on1834
to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835
kibosh1841
to chaw up1843
cooper1851
to jack up1870
scuttle1888
to bugger up1891
jigger1895
torpedo1895
on the fritz1900
to put paid to1901
rot1908
down and out1916
scuppera1918
to put the skids under1918
stonker1919
liquidate1924
to screw up1933
cruel1934
to dig the grave of1934
pox1935
blow1936
to hit for six1937
to piss up1937
to dust off1938
zap1976
1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 351/2 The ring-dropping ‘lurk’ is now carried on this way, for the old style is ‘coopered’.
1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 128 Cooper'd (spoilt) by too many tramps calling there. [Said of a house.]
1877 W. Besant & J. Rice This Son of Vulcan (new ed.) i. ix. 99 ‘The cove wasn't at home, and the slavey'd been changed, and the ken was coopered.’
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