cooperage
Origin of cooperage
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How to use cooperage in a sentence
Working with Spanish cooperage Tevasa, they turn 150 year old trees into casks.
A schooner-building yard, and a cooperage for making kegs and barrels to hold the fish exported, were next installed.
Heroes of To-Day | Mary R. ParkmanIt has always been the custom for a native watchman to sleep in the cooperage, to prevent the barrel hoops being stolen.
The Dealings of Captain Sharkey | A. Conan DoyleAnd then down came the tropical rain, crashing and rattling on the corrugated iron roofing of the cooperage.
The Dealings of Captain Sharkey | A. Conan DoyleWe left the ill-omened cooperage with its mystery still unsolved, and we splashed our way up to the house.
The Dealings of Captain Sharkey | A. Conan Doyle
It is used for posts, rails, boat building, cooperage and for ox-yokes.
Forest Trees of Illinois | Fuller George D.
British Dictionary definitions for cooperage
/ (ˈkuːpərɪdʒ) /
Also called: coopery the craft, place of work, or products of a cooper
the labour fee charged by a cooper
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