单词 | cooperage |
释义 | cooperagen. 1. A place where a cooper's trade is carried on. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > workplace > place where specific things are made > [noun] > casks cooperage1714 1714 London Gaz. No. 5246/2 A parcel of..unserviceable Staves..lying in the Cooperage. 1738 Defoe's Tour Great Brit. (ed. 2) I. 34 Room for erecting..Ware houses, Roap-walks, Cooperages, &c. 1836 F. Marryat Mr. Midshipman Easy II. ii. 45 That the meeting should take place behind the cooperage. 1888 Pall Mall Gaz. 3 Nov. 9/1 To place a cooperage..at each fishery station along the south coast. 2. The coopering of casks; cooper's work; the business or trade of a cooper; coopery. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > cask-making > [noun] coopery1558 cooperage1741 coopering1746 1741 A. Hill Let. 1 Jan. in Wks. (1753) II. 112 The prime cost of caskage..with the care of their cooperage and ordering. 1746 in W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate (1757) 47 Good Cooperage will be found productive of good Package. 1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames xiii. 376 The Cooperage, Hoops, and Nails, which such Cargo may require. 1818 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 490 The cooperage of the French hogsheads is also a subject of complaint. 1872 J. Yeats Nat. Hist. Commerce (rev. ed.) 140 In the latter part of the Middle Ages, the articles of cooperage were very numerous. 3. Money payable to a cooper for his services. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > fees and taxes > payment for labour or service > fee for services rendered > [noun] > payments for other specific services barber feec1380 alnage1418 school fee1512 pinlocka1525 warden-fee1531 wait fee1563 fullage1611 pipe-moneya1637 marriage money1674 sharping-corn1681 spy-money1713 crimpage1732 cooperage1755 stirrup money1757 stub-money1776 membership fee1860 1755 S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang. Cooperage, the price paid for cooper's work. 1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 131 Cooperage, money paid to a cooper who attends on the quays to mend casks, also to open them for samples. 4. attributive. ΚΠ 1871 Daily News 5 Sept. They were compelled to pay heavy cooperage charges, though there was not a loose hoop nor a broken stave in the hold. 1893 N.E.D. at Cooperage Mod. Advt., A Plant of Cooperage Machines can be seen in daily operation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online September 2018). < n.1714 |
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