cooper

cooper

See also: Cooper

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːpə(ɹ)/

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• Rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From coop +‎ -er.

Noun

cooper (countable and uncountable, plural coopers)

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

   Hypernym: barrelmaker

   • 1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 5, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, OCLC 57395299:

     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. (obsolete) A drink of half stout and half porter.

Translations

craftsman

Aromanian: dugar m Azerbaijani: çəlləkçi Belarusian: бо́ндар m (bóndar) Bulgarian: бъчвар m (bǎčvar) Catalan: boter (ca) m Chinese: Mandarin: 桶工 (tǒnggōng), 桶匠 (tǒngjiàng) Czech: bednář (cs) m Danish: bødker (da) c Dutch: kuiper (nl) Esperanto: barelfaristo Estonian: püttsepp, aamissepp (et) Finnish: tynnyrintekijä French: tonnelier (fr) m Galician: toneleiro, cubeiro (gl) Georgian: მეკასრე (meḳasre) German: Küfer (de) m, Böttcher (de) m, Fassbinder (de) m, Fassküfer (de) m, Fassmacher m, Wannenmacher m, Schäffler (de) m Greek: βαρελάς (el) m (varelás) Hebrew: חַבְתָן‎ (he) (khavtan) Hungarian: kádár (hu), bodnár (hu), pintér (hu) Icelandic: beykir (is) m Ido: barelisto (io) Irish: cúipéir Italian: bottaio (it) m Japanese: 桶屋 (おけや, okeya) Korean: 통메장이 (tongmejang'i), 통장수 (tongjangsu) Latin: viētor m, tunnārius m Lithuanian: kubilius m Macedonian: бочвар m (bočvar) Norwegian: bøkker m Polish: bednarz (pl) m Portuguese: tanoeiro (pt) m Romanian: dogar (ro) m Russian: бо́ндарь (ru) m (bóndarʹ), бонда́рь (ru) m (bondárʹ), боча́р (ru) m (bočár) Serbo-Croatian: Cyrillic: ба̏чва̄р m Roman: bȁčvār (sh) m Slovak: debnár m Slovene: sodar m Spanish: tonelero m Swedish: tunnbindare (sv) c Turkish: fıçıcı (tr) Ukrainian: бо́ндар (uk) m (bóndar)

Verb

cooper (third-person singular simple present coopers, present participle coopering, simple past and past participle coopered)

1. (now rare) To make and repair barrels etc.

Derived terms

• broad cooper
• cooperage
• wine cooper

Noun

cooper (plural coopers)

1. Alternative form of coper (“floating grog shop”)

Verb

cooper (third-person singular simple present coopers, present participle coopering, simple past and past participle coopered)

1. Alternative form of coper (“operate as floating grog shop”)