cooperage

There is an historic oak tree alongside the cooperage, which is said to have been used to tie up the Hudson's Bay Company's vessels in the earliest times when wharves were few and far between.

Some Reminiscences of old Victoria Edgar Fawcett 1885

When barrels are made, a profession called cooperage, the wood has to be heated over a fire to curve and shape the oak staves.

News for Culpeper Star-Exponent 2010

While thin stock, such as cooperage and box stuff is less inclined to give trouble by undue checking than 1-inch and thicker, one will find that any dry kiln will give more uniform results and, at the same time, be more economical in the use of steam, when the humidity and temperature is carried at as high a point as possible without injury to the material to be dried.

Seasoning of Wood

But, as much as I tend to prefer the more expensive French cooperage, I really enjoy what a third type of oak, Hungarian oak, brings to the table as well.

The New York Cork Report: 2009

While many Napa barrel rooms are temples of modern cooperage, the storage at Mayacamas seems complacently disheveled.

Visiting Mayacamas Vineyards, Napa Valley [guest post] | Dr Vino's wine blog 2010

There is even a cooperage that has an exhibit of barrel making.

terroir - French Word-A-Day 2009

Fortunately, no homes lay near it, just a stables and a cooperage that was closed for the night.

A Hellion in Her Bed Sabrina Jeffries 2010

Fortunately, no homes lay near it, just a stables and a cooperage that was closed for the night.

A Hellion in Her Bed Sabrina Jeffries 2010

But in the middle of the vast heap of cooperage there was one keg that didn't slosh.

He Don't Know Him 2010

Fortunately, no homes lay near it, just a stables and a cooperage that was closed for the night.

A Hellion in Her Bed Sabrina Jeffries 2010