cooper
noun
a person who makes or repairs casks, barrels, etc.
coopered
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past participleof cooper.past participle
A verb form used in perfect and passive verb constructions and that can also function as a modifier.
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past tense formof cooper.past tense
Used to describe completed actions or previous habitual actions.
coopernouna person who makes or repairs casks, barrels, etc.
Example Sentences
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The ribs below their throbbing fingers became the wobbly staves of a poorly coopered barrel.
From Time Magazine Archive
As coopered up into print by a quartet of British writers, the earlier lives of the fascinating Bellamy servants have been drowned in tears and treacle.
From Time Magazine Archive
I've always hollered for high terriff in order to hyst the public debt, but now that we've got the national debt coopered I wish they'd take a little hack at mine.
From Nye and Riley's Wit and Humor (Poems and Yarns) by Bill Nye
When the boxes were filled and sealed, they were strongly coopered, by adding four thin laths of strong wood.
From Solaris Farm A Story of the Twentieth Century by Milan C. Edson
And now, since you have coopered me up so nicely, if you will let me have some water and my clothes, I will make my toilet as far as I can.”
From The Pirate Slaver A Story of the West African Coast by William Heysham Overend
