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
"Good lad! good lad!" exploded the landlord; and found him lots of barrels to mend—on these terms, And he coopered with fury in the interval of the boats coming down the Rhine.
From The Cloister and the Hearth by Charles Reade
The table furniture usually consisted of wooden vessels, either turned or coopered.
From The Conquest of the Old Southwest; the romantic story of the early pioneers into Virginia, the Carolinas, Tennessee, and Kentucky, 1740-1790 by Archibald Henderson
You stand there and tell me calmly that the government has all these resources coopered up here in a barrel?—that nobody is going to get a chance to make any money out of them?
From The City of Numbered Days by Francis Lynde
