Cooper definition

ko͝opər
coopers
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A person who makes or repairs wooden barrels and tubs.
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A person whose work is making or repairing barrels and casks.
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To make or repair (barrels and casks)
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A person who makes or repairs wooden barrels and tubs.
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A craftsman who makes and repairs barrels and similar wooden vessels such as casks, buckets and tubs.
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(now rare) To make and repair barrels etc.
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An English occupational surname​ derived from cooper.
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A male given name, transferred from the surname.
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(person) (born Frank James Cooper) 1901-61; U.S. film actor.
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(person) 1789-1851; U.S. novelist.
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(person) 1791-1883; U.S. inventor, industrialist, & philanthropist.
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Noun

Singular:
cooper
Plural:
coopers

Origin of cooper

  • Middle English couper from Middle Dutch kūper from kūpe basket, tub coop

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • Middle English couper from Middle Dutch kūper from kūpe basket, tub coop

    From American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition

  • coop +‎ -er

    From Wiktionary

Cooper Sentence Examples

  • He is probably best known, however, as the founder of the Cooper Union (q.v.).

  • It made for the Barcoo (Cooper's Creek), Burke and ins.

  • Leaving the main body of his party at Menindie on the Darling under a man named Wright, Burke, with seven men, five horses and sixteen camels, pushed on for Cooper's Creek, the understanding being that Wright should follow him in easy stages to the depot proposed to be there established.

  • Wright frittered away his time in the district beyond the Darling and did not attempt to follow the party to Cooper's Creek, and Burke, tired of waiting, determined to push on.

  • The men who had thus abandoned the depot rejoined the main body of the expedition under Wright, who at length moved to Cooper's Creek, and, incredible to relate, neglected to search for the missing explorers.

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