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cooperage|ˈkuːpərɪdʒ|
[f. cooper n.1 + -age.]
1. A place where a cooper's trade is carried on.
1714Lond. Gaz. No. 5246/2 A parcel of..unserviceable Staves..lying in the Cooperage. 1724De Foe Tour Gt. Brit. (1748) I. 26 (D.) Room for erecting..warehouses, roap⁓walks, cooperages, &c. 1836Marryat Midsh. Easy xviii. 63 That the meeting should take place behind the cooperage. 1888Pall Mall G. 3 Nov. 9/1 To place a cooperage..at each fishery station along the south coast.
2. The coopering of casks; cooper's work; the business or trade of a cooper; coopery.
1740–1A. Hill Lett. in Wks. (1753) II. 112 The prime cost of caskage..with the care of their cooperage and ordering. 1746in W. Thompson R.N. Advoc. (1757) 47 Good Cooperage will be found productive of good Package. 1800Colquhoun Comm. Thames xiii. 376 The Cooperage, Hoops, and Nails, which such Cargo may require. 1818W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 490 The cooperage of the French hogsheads is also a subject of complaint. 1872Yeats Hist. Comm. 140 In the latter part of the Middle Ages, the articles of cooperage were very numerous.
3. Money payable to a cooper for his services.
1755Johnson, Cooperage, the price paid for cooper's work. 1809R. Langford Introd. Trade 131 Cooperage, money paid to a cooper who attends on the quays to mend casks, also to open them for samples.
4. attrib.
1871Daily News 5 Sept., They were compelled to pay heavy cooperage charges, though there was not a loose hoop nor a broken stave in the hold. Mod. Advt., A Plant of Cooperage Machines can be seen in daily operation. |