Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art of manufacturing or repairing casks, barrels, and other vessels composed of staves and hoops.
- noun See extract.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun Work done by a cooper in making or repairing barrels, casks, etc.; the business of a cooper.
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- verb Present participle of
cooper .
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Examples
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After his marriage, he worked at "coopering" when he could obtain this employment, and went a fishing when he could not.
The Coming Wave The Hidden Treasure of High Rock Oliver Optic 1859
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Authorities said he is coopering with investigators.
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But if you were to tell people, "I do my coopering myself," they would have no idea what you were saying and would suspect that it was vaguely obscene.
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Authorities said he is coopering with investigators.
Times Square Car Bomb Cost: Total Budget May Have Been Under $7,000 2010
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Her paintings of the vineyard hung on the walls, along with a handmade reproduction of a tapestry from the Musée de Cluny in Paris, showing coopering and wine making in the Middle Ages.
The Merlot Murders Ellen Crosby 2006
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Her paintings of the vineyard hung on the walls, along with a handmade reproduction of a tapestry from the Musée de Cluny in Paris, showing coopering and wine making in the Middle Ages.
The Merlot Murders Ellen Crosby 2006
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Her paintings of the vineyard hung on the walls, along with a handmade reproduction of a tapestry from the Musée de Cluny in Paris, showing coopering and wine making in the Middle Ages.
The Merlot Murders Ellen Crosby 2006
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Her paintings of the vineyard hung on the walls, along with a handmade reproduction of a tapestry from the Musée de Cluny in Paris, showing coopering and wine making in the Middle Ages.
The Merlot Murders Ellen Crosby 2006
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Recently Juckes, in coopering up his allegation that our source code was not "available", said that
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That he had not approached magery as a craft, as he did coopering, where the staves had to be shaped and fitted perfectly, the chimes trimmed exactly, the hoops fitted precisely?
Ordermaster Modesitt, L. E. 2005
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