hooper
[hoo-per, hoo p-er]
- a person who makes or puts hoops on barrels, tubs, etc.; a cooper.
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Origin of hooper
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Contemporary Examples of hooper
The worst thing was when a woman killed herself by leaping from the roof of a building at South Fifth Street and Hooper.
“People are grieving in this town,” said Scott Ballard, principal of the Hooper Bay School.
Historical Examples of hooper
Spinnin'-wheels out in the shed chamber, where his gran'mother Hooper kep' 'em?
Tiverton TalesAlice Brown
Boschen caught about one hundred; Jump, eighty-four; Hooper, sixty.
Tales of FishesZane Grey
The Fleet prison had now been Hooper's house for eighteen months.
The Reign of Mary TudorW. Llewelyn Williams.
Hooper had been sent for also for the ceremony of degradation.
The Reign of Mary TudorW. Llewelyn Williams.
Hooper was on his knees, and, looking round at the intruder, did not at first know him.
The Reign of Mary TudorW. Llewelyn Williams.
hooper
- a rare word for cooper
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