cooper

nom

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   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.

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   obsolèteA drink of half stout and half porter.

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   archaïqueTo make and repair barrels etc.

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   obsolèteTo 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."

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   obsolèteTo 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.

nom

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

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

Formes

pluriel

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passé

coopered

participe passé

coopered

participe présent

coopering

3ᵉ personne du singulier

coopers