cooper

noun

1. 1

   A craftsman who makes and repairs barrels and similar wooden vessels such as casks, buckets and tubs.

   They were nearly all whalemen; chief mates, and second mates, and third mates, and sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea blacksmiths, and harpooneers, and ship keepers; a brown and brawny company, with bosky beards; an unshorn, shaggy set, all wearing monkey jackets for morning gowns.

2. 2

   obsoleteA drink of half stout and half porter.

verb

1. 1

   archaicTo make and repair barrels etc.

2. 2

   obsoleteTo forge or imitate (writing).

   […] though, owing to his forged signatures having been too often detected, he was declared to be "a duffer at coopering a monekur."

3. 3

   obsoleteTo intentionally injure (a racehorse) to spoil its chances of winning.

   Every design that villainy could suggest was had recourse to in the hopes of nobbling Wild Dayrell; but never being left for an hour by either his trainer or jockey, he escaped the intended 'coopering', even when the lynchpins of the wheels of his van had been tampered with.

noun

1. 1

   Variant of coperAlternative form of coper (“floating grog shop”).

verb

1. 1

   Variant of coperAlternative form of coper (“operate as floating grog shop”).

Forms

plural

coopers

past tense

coopered

past participle

coopered

present participle

coopering

third person singular

coopers