cooper

name

1. (countable)An English surname originating as an occupation of cooper.

   “The young lady, who made her firſt appearance in Lady Bab Lardoon, at the Haymarket on Monday night laſt, is a Miſs Prideaux, and lineally deſcended from one of the daughters and co-heireſſes of the Right Hon. John Wilmot, the witty Earl of Rocheſter, and conſequently related to the Sandwiches, Pomfrets, Coopers, and many other noble families.”

   “On the invitation list: Govs. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, Tim Walz of Minnesota, J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Tony Evers of Wisconsin, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Roy Cooper of North Carolina, Wes Moore of Maryland and Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico.”

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noun

1. (countable, uncountable)A craftsman who makes and repairs barrels and similar wooden vessels such as casks, buckets and tubs.

   “They were nearly all whalemen; chief mates, and second mates, and third mates, and sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea blacksmiths, and harpooneers, and ship keepers; a brown and brawny company, with bosky beards; an unshorn, shaggy set, all wearing monkey jackets for morning gowns.”

2. (countable, obsolete, uncountable)A drink of half stout and half porter.
3. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of coper (“floating grog shop”).

verb

1. (archaic)To make and repair barrels etc.
2. (obsolete, slang, transitive)To forge or imitate (writing).

   “[…] though, owing to his forged signatures having been too often detected, he was declared to be "a duffer at coopering a monekur."”

3. (obsolete, slang, transitive)To intentionally injure (a racehorse) to spoil its chances of winning.

   “Every design that villainy could suggest was had recourse to in the hopes of nobbling Wild Dayrell; but never being left for an hour by either his trainer or jockey, he escaped the intended 'coopering', even when the lynchpins of the wheels of his van had been tampered with.”

4. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative form of coper (“operate as floating grog shop”).