noun
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Also called: coopery. the craft, place of work, or products of a cooper
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the labour fee charged by a cooper
Etymology
Origin of cooperage
Example Sentences
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In Louisville, Brown-Forman closed the cooperage that made barrels to house its spirits, which also include Old Forester bourbon.
From The Wall Street Journal ● May 17, 2026
This means his pickle company is also part cooperage.
From Seattle Times ● Dec. 3, 2020
The silo was about eight feet across and thirty feet high, with boards of unvarnished yellow pine as tightly fitted as cooperage.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 4, 2019
Other companies added employees and equipment: Brown-Forman, which already owned a cooperage in Kentucky, built another in Alabama to meet internal demand, and Black Swan opened its own stave mill.
From New York Times ● Aug. 27, 2016
He walked along toward the cooperage with Nat.
From "Carry On, Mr. Bowditch" by Jean Lee Latham
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