coopern.¹

Brit.

/ˈkuːpə/, U.S.

/ˈkupər/

Forms: Middle English–1500s couper, Middle English–1700s cowper, (Middle English cowpare, 1500s coupar), 1500s– cooper.

Etymology: Occurs in 15th cent. as couper , cowper , cowpar ; apparently of Low German origin: compare Middle Dutch cuper , 15th cent. Niederrheinisch kuper , East Frisian kuper , modern Low German (Bremen, Hamb.) küper , dialect Middle High German küefer , modern German küfer , also dialect kufer ; from Middle Dutch cupe , Low German kupe , modern German kufe , cask; in medieval Latin cūpārius , cūperius , < cūpa cask: see coop n.¹ (It is not an English derivative of coop, which, so far as appears, has never had the sense ‘cask’.) An old spelling remains in the surname Cowper, pronounced Cooper by those who bear it.

a. A craftsman who makes and repairs wooden vessels formed of staves and hoops, as casks, buckets, tubs.A dry cooper makes casks, etc., to hold dry goods, a wet cooper those to contain liquids, a white cooper pails, tubs, and the like for domestic or dairy use. See also butt cooper n. at butt n.⁴ Compounds, etc.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of containers or receptacles > [noun] > maker of casks or cooper

cooperc1415

trusser1535

hooper1552

tubman1677

tubber1825

tub-thumper1872

barrel-maker1883

c1415 York Myst. Introd. 20 Coupers.

c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 650 Hic cuparius, cowpare.

c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 686 Hic cuperius, a cowper.

1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. iii. 93 The other ben coupers.

1520 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Paed to the couper for new bottomyng of a bukket.

1523 Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII c. 2 The misteries..of smithes, joigners, or coupars.

1589 Pappe with Hatchet (1844) 16 Now you talke of a cooper, Ile tell you a tale of a tubb.

1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures (1663) lvi. 221 He had in his hand an Hatchet in the form of a Coopers Addis.

1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. 63 Nailed with Coopers Nails.

1720 London Gaz. No. 5874/4 Michael Morgatroid, of Ripon, Cowper.

1724 London Gaz. No. 6249/10 John Higgs..Turner and Wet-Cooper.

1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 161 The ‘Dry-cooper’ is employed in making sugar hogsheads and other casks.

1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 43 The coopers..now tightening hoops, and now slackening them.

b. On board ship: One who looks to the repair of casks and other vessels.

ΚΠ

1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 5 The Cowper is to looke to the caske, hoopes and twigges, to staue or repaire the buckets, Baricoes, Cans, steepe tubs.

1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Cooper, a rating for a first-class petty officer, who repairs casks, etc.

c. From the practices of the journeymen coopers employed on vessels in the Thames, the word acquired in the end of the 18th cent. an evil connotation.

1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames 65 No inconsiderable portion of the pillage fell to the share of Journeymen Coopers..necessary to repair casks and packages, which have suffered injury in the stowage. They have even been known to break hogsheads wilfully to obtain plunder.

1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames 64 Coopers, Revenue Officers, and the Ship's Crew all participated in the spoil.

1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xviii. 126 Then we've the Coopers and Bumboat men, and the Rat-catchers and the Scuffle Hunters, and the River Pirates..all living by their wits.

2. One engaged in the trade of sampling, bottling, or retailing wine; a wine-cooper.

ΘΚΠ

society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in food and drink > in liquor

wine-merchantc950

vintnerc1430

cooperc1503

merchant vintner1532

beer-monger1622

wine-cooper1635

firkin-man1706

brandy-man1723

brandy-merchant1771

gin spinner1778

liqueur merchant1801

almacenista1846

liquor-dealer1859

négociant1910

1465 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 285 Paid for caryage of a hoggeshed of wyne into his place at London, viij. d. Item to the cowper the same tyme, iiij. d.]

c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xxxi v/1 Wher as the cowpers of his Cite haue vsed and dayly vse to colour straungers goodis as in taking vpon them Malmeseis and other wynes belongyng to strangers to bee their owne.

1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) at Cannister A certain Instrument which Coopers use in the racking of the Wine.

1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 162 The Wine-Cooper is employed in drawing off, bottling and packing wine, etc.

3. ? A six- (or twelve-) bottle basket, used in wine cellars.[Probably from its use by wine-coopers.]

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [noun] > wine-cellar or store > stand or basket in

bin1758

cooper1817

1817 T. L. Peacock Melincourt II. xx. 80 Give me a roaring fire and a six bottle cooper of claret.

1829 W. H. Maxwell Stories Waterloo: F. Kennedy He and the ambassador having discussed a cooper of port within a marvellous short period.

1876 J. Grant One of Six Hundred lii. 436 And a rare cooper of old port Davie Binns shall set abroach.

4. A mixture composed half of stout and half of porter. (So called in London, and some other places: see quot. 1873.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > mixed drinks of ale or beer > [noun]

three-threads1698

pap-in1748

half-and-half1756

porter cup1790

shandygaff1853

mixed ale1864

cooper1871

black and tan1881

four-half1884

mother-in-law1884

shandy1888

smiler1892

mild-and-bitter1933

red-eye1960

1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant I. viii. 252 Vast hunches of bread and meat and stone jars of ‘cooper’, being the favourite form of refreshment.

1873 Slang Dict. Cooper, ‘stout half and half’, i.e. half stout and half porter. Derived from the coopers at breweries being allowed so much stout and so much porter a day, which they take mixed.

Compounds

C1.

cooper-stuff n.

1659 in Rowley (Mass.) Early Rec. (1894) 104 The Decay of usefull timber for Cowper stuff.

1801 in C. Cist Cincinnati in 1841 (1841) 183 Charles Faran advertises for cooper-stuff.

C2.

cooper-shop n. cooper's shop.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. (1682) x. 444 All the Cowper-shops, and dwelling-Houses..adjoyning to the Town's Wall.

1827 B. Drake & E. D. Mansfield Cincinnati in 1826 viii. 65 Eleven cooper shops 48 men.

1894 H. Frederic Copperhead 55 He had been a well-to-do man..with a big cooper-shop.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

coopern.²

Etymology: < coop v.¹ + -er suffix¹.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcooper.

One who coops or confines. (With quot. 1889 cf. coop v.¹ 2c.)

ΚΠ

1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms 168/2 To coop voters is to collect them as it were in a coop or cage, so as to be sure of their services on election day. Liquor dealers are the usual ‘coopers’ for obvious reasons.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019).

cooperv.

Brit.

/ˈkuːpə/, U.S.

/ˈkupər/

Etymology: < cooper n.¹

1. transitive. To make or repair (casks, etc.); to furnish or secure with hoops.

ΘΚΠ

society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > cask-making > make casks [verb (transitive)]

cooper1746

1746 in W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate (1757) 8 One, two, or three Months..expiring before they are cooper'd and made tight.

1834 Fraser's Mag. 10 32 Coopered with brass hoops weather-tight.

1840 H. Cockton Life Valentine Vox (1856) 177 ‘I'll cooper it up’..And he began to repair the cask.

2. To put or stow in casks.

ΘΚΠ

the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > into or as into other specific receptacles

sackc1405

pokea1425

pipe1465

barrel1466

cask1562

bag1570

vessel1577

basket1582

crock1594

cade1599

maund1604

impoke1611

incask1611

inflask1611

insatchel1611

desk1615

pot1626

cooper1746

kit1769

vat1784

pannier1804

vial1805

flask1855

tub1889

ampoule1946

1746 in W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate (1757) 42 Many a Cart-Load..brought into the..Victualling Office, and Slaughtered, Salted, Pack'd, Cooper'd, etc.

1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 210 The whalers..resort thither to ‘cooper their oil’.

3. intransitive. To work as a cooper, do cooper's work. (In modern dictionaries.)

4. transitive. To ‘rig up’, furbish up, put into a presentable form. colloquial.

ΚΠ

1828 W. Scott Jrnl. 4 June (1941) 260 I employd my leisure..to peruse Mure of Auchendrane's trial, out of which something might be cooperd up for the publick.

1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. ix. 244 When I was washed and cleansed, and fairly coopered up.

5. To ‘do for’, spoil. slang. (Cf. cooper n.¹ 1c.)

ΘΚΠ

the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > bring to ruin or put an end to

undoc950

shendOE

forfarea1000

endc1000

to do awayOE

aquenchc1175

slayc1175

stathea1200

tinea1300

to-spilla1300

batec1300

bleschea1325

honisha1325

leesea1325

wastec1325

stanch1338

corrumpa1340

destroy1340

to put awayc1350

dissolvec1374

supplanta1382

to-shend1382

aneantizec1384

avoidc1384

to put outa1398

beshenda1400

swelta1400

amortizec1405

distract1413

consumec1425

shelfc1425

abroge1427

downthringc1430

kill1435

poisonc1450

defeat1474

perish1509

to blow away1523

abrogatea1529

to prick (also turn, pitch) over the perka1529

dash?1529

to bring (also send) to (the) pot1531

put in the pot1531

wipea1538

extermine1539

fatec1540

peppera1550

disappoint1563

to put (also set) beside the saddle1563

to cut the throat of1565

to throw (also turn, etc.) over the perch1568

to make a hand of (also on, with)1569

demolish1570

to break the neck of1576

to make shipwreck of1577

spoil1578

to knock on (in) the head (also rarely at head)1579

cipher1589

ruinate1590

to cut off by the shins1592

shipwreck1599

exterminate1605

finish1611

damnify1612

ravel1614

braina1616

stagger1629

unrivet1630

consummate1634

pulverizea1640

baffle1649

devil1652

to blow up1660

feague1668

shatter1683

cook1708

to die away1748

to prove fatal (to)1759

to knock up1764

to knock (or kick) the hindsight out or off1834

to put the kibosh on1834

to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835

kibosh1841

to chaw up1843

cooper1851

to jack up1870

scuttle1888

to bugger up1891

jigger1895

torpedo1895

on the fritz1900

to put paid to1901

rot1908

down and out1916

scuppera1918

to put the skids under1918

stonker1919

liquidate1924

to screw up1933

cruel1934

to dig the grave of1934

pox1935

blow1936

to hit for six1937

to piss up1937

to dust off1938

zap1976

1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 351/2 The ring-dropping ‘lurk’ is now carried on this way, for the old style is ‘coopered’.

1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 128 Cooper'd (spoilt) by too many tramps calling there. [Said of a house.]

1877 W. Besant & J. Rice This Son of Vulcan (new ed.) i. ix. 99 ‘The cove wasn't at home, and the slavey'd been changed, and the ken was coopered.’

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

> see also

also refers to : copercoopern.²

n.¹c1415

n.²1889

v.1746

单词	cooper
释义	coopern.¹ Brit. /ˈkuːpə/, U.S. /ˈkupər/ Forms: Middle English–1500s couper, Middle English–1700s cowper, (Middle English cowpare, 1500s coupar), 1500s– cooper. Etymology: Occurs in 15th cent. as couper , cowper , cowpar ; apparently of Low German origin: compare Middle Dutch cuper , 15th cent. Niederrheinisch kuper , East Frisian kuper , modern Low German (Bremen, Hamb.) küper , dialect Middle High German küefer , modern German küfer , also dialect kufer ; from Middle Dutch cupe , Low German kupe , modern German kufe , cask; in medieval Latin cūpārius , cūperius , < cūpa cask: see coop n.¹ (It is not an English derivative of coop, which, so far as appears, has never had the sense ‘cask’.) An old spelling remains in the surname Cowper, pronounced Cooper by those who bear it. 1. a. A craftsman who makes and repairs wooden vessels formed of staves and hoops, as casks, buckets, tubs.A dry cooper makes casks, etc., to hold dry goods, a wet cooper those to contain liquids, a white cooper pails, tubs, and the like for domestic or dairy use. See also butt cooper n. at butt n.⁴ Compounds, etc. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > producer > makers of containers or receptacles > [noun] > maker of casks or cooper cooperc1415 trusser1535 hooper1552 tubman1677 tubber1825 tub-thumper1872 barrel-maker1883 c1415 York Myst. Introd. 20 Coupers. c1425 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 650 Hic cuparius, cowpare. c1450 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 686 Hic cuperius, a cowper. 1474 W. Caxton tr. Game & Playe of Chesse (1883) iii. iii. 93 The other ben coupers. 1520 Accts. St. John's Hosp., Canterbury (Canterbury Cathedral Archives: CCA-U13/4) Paed to the couper for new bottomyng of a bukket. 1523 Act 14 & 15 Hen. VIII c. 2 The misteries..of smithes, joigners, or coupars. 1589 Pappe with Hatchet (1844) 16 Now you talke of a cooper, Ile tell you a tale of a tubb. 1653 H. Cogan tr. F. M. Pinto Voy. & Adventures (1663) lvi. 221 He had in his hand an Hatchet in the form of a Coopers Addis. 1669 S. Sturmy Mariners Mag. v. 63 Nailed with Coopers Nails. 1720 London Gaz. No. 5874/4 Michael Morgatroid, of Ripon, Cowper. 1724 London Gaz. No. 6249/10 John Higgs..Turner and Wet-Cooper. 1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 161 The ‘Dry-cooper’ is employed in making sugar hogsheads and other casks. 1854 H. Miller My Schools & Schoolmasters (1858) 43 The coopers..now tightening hoops, and now slackening them. b. On board ship: One who looks to the repair of casks and other vessels. ΚΠ 1626 J. Smith Accidence Young Sea-men 5 The Cowper is to looke to the caske, hoopes and twigges, to staue or repaire the buckets, Baricoes, Cans, steepe tubs. 1867 W. H. Smyth & E. Belcher Sailor's Word-bk. Cooper, a rating for a first-class petty officer, who repairs casks, etc. c. From the practices of the journeymen coopers employed on vessels in the Thames, the word acquired in the end of the 18th cent. an evil connotation. Π 1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames 65 No inconsiderable portion of the pillage fell to the share of Journeymen Coopers..necessary to repair casks and packages, which have suffered injury in the stowage. They have even been known to break hogsheads wilfully to obtain plunder. 1800 P. Colquhoun Treat. Commerce & Police R. Thames 64 Coopers, Revenue Officers, and the Ship's Crew all participated in the spoil. 1840 F. Marryat Poor Jack xviii. 126 Then we've the Coopers and Bumboat men, and the Rat-catchers and the Scuffle Hunters, and the River Pirates..all living by their wits. 2. One engaged in the trade of sampling, bottling, or retailing wine; a wine-cooper. ΘΚΠ society > trade and finance > trader > traders or dealers in specific articles > [noun] > in food and drink > in liquor wine-merchantc950 vintnerc1430 cooperc1503 merchant vintner1532 beer-monger1622 wine-cooper1635 firkin-man1706 brandy-man1723 brandy-merchant1771 gin spinner1778 liqueur merchant1801 almacenista1846 liquor-dealer1859 négociant1910 1465 in Manners & Househ. Expenses Eng. (1841) 285 Paid for caryage of a hoggeshed of wyne into his place at London, viij. d. Item to the cowper the same tyme, iiij. d.] c1503 R. Arnold Chron. f. xxxi v/1 Wher as the cowpers of his Cite haue vsed and dayly vse to colour straungers goodis as in taking vpon them Malmeseis and other wynes belongyng to strangers to bee their owne. 1678 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) at Cannister A certain Instrument which Coopers use in the racking of the Wine. 1837 N. Whittock et al. Compl. Bk. Trades (1842) 162 The Wine-Cooper is employed in drawing off, bottling and packing wine, etc. 3. ? A six- (or twelve-) bottle basket, used in wine cellars.[Probably from its use by wine-coopers.] ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [noun] > wine-cellar or store > stand or basket in bin1758 cooper1817 1817 T. L. Peacock Melincourt II. xx. 80 Give me a roaring fire and a six bottle cooper of claret. 1829 W. H. Maxwell Stories Waterloo: F. Kennedy He and the ambassador having discussed a cooper of port within a marvellous short period. 1876 J. Grant One of Six Hundred lii. 436 And a rare cooper of old port Davie Binns shall set abroach. 4. A mixture composed half of stout and half of porter. (So called in London, and some other places: see quot. 1873.) ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > ale or beer > mixed drinks of ale or beer > [noun] three-threads1698 pap-in1748 half-and-half1756 porter cup1790 shandygaff1853 mixed ale1864 cooper1871 black and tan1881 four-half1884 mother-in-law1884 shandy1888 smiler1892 mild-and-bitter1933 red-eye1960 1871 M. Collins Marquis & Merchant I. viii. 252 Vast hunches of bread and meat and stone jars of ‘cooper’, being the favourite form of refreshment. 1873 Slang Dict. Cooper, ‘stout half and half’, i.e. half stout and half porter. Derived from the coopers at breweries being allowed so much stout and so much porter a day, which they take mixed. Compounds C1. cooper-stuff n. Π 1659 in Rowley (Mass.) Early Rec. (1894) 104 The Decay of usefull timber for Cowper stuff. 1801 in C. Cist Cincinnati in 1841 (1841) 183 Charles Faran advertises for cooper-stuff. C2. cooper-shop n. cooper's shop. Π 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. (1682) x. 444 All the Cowper-shops, and dwelling-Houses..adjoyning to the Town's Wall. 1827 B. Drake & E. D. Mansfield Cincinnati in 1826 viii. 65 Eleven cooper shops 48 men. 1894 H. Frederic Copperhead 55 He had been a well-to-do man..with a big cooper-shop. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). coopern.² Etymology: < coop v.¹ + -er suffix¹.Previous versions of the OED give the stress as: ˈcooper. One who coops or confines. (With quot. 1889 cf. coop v.¹ 2c.) ΚΠ 1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms 168/2 To coop voters is to collect them as it were in a coop or cage, so as to be sure of their services on election day. Liquor dealers are the usual ‘coopers’ for obvious reasons. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2019). cooperv. Brit. /ˈkuːpə/, U.S. /ˈkupər/ Etymology: < cooper n.¹ 1. transitive. To make or repair (casks, etc.); to furnish or secure with hoops. ΘΚΠ society > occupation and work > industry > manufacturing processes > cask-making > make casks [verb (transitive)] cooper1746 1746 in W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate (1757) 8 One, two, or three Months..expiring before they are cooper'd and made tight. 1834 Fraser's Mag. 10 32 Coopered with brass hoops weather-tight. 1840 H. Cockton Life Valentine Vox (1856) 177 ‘I'll cooper it up’..And he began to repair the cask. 2. To put or stow in casks. ΘΚΠ the world > space > place > placing or fact of being placed in (a) position > insertion or putting in > insert or put in [verb (transitive)] > into or as into other specific receptacles sackc1405 pokea1425 pipe1465 barrel1466 cask1562 bag1570 vessel1577 basket1582 crock1594 cade1599 maund1604 impoke1611 incask1611 inflask1611 insatchel1611 desk1615 pot1626 cooper1746 kit1769 vat1784 pannier1804 vial1805 flask1855 tub1889 ampoule1946 1746 in W. Thompson Royal Navy-men's Advocate (1757) 42 Many a Cart-Load..brought into the..Victualling Office, and Slaughtered, Salted, Pack'd, Cooper'd, etc. 1860 Mercantile Marine Mag. 7 210 The whalers..resort thither to ‘cooper their oil’. 3. intransitive. To work as a cooper, do cooper's work. (In modern dictionaries.) 4. transitive. To ‘rig up’, furbish up, put into a presentable form. colloquial. ΚΠ 1828 W. Scott Jrnl. 4 June (1941) 260 I employd my leisure..to peruse Mure of Auchendrane's trial, out of which something might be cooperd up for the publick. 1833 M. Scott Tom Cringle's Log I. ix. 244 When I was washed and cleansed, and fairly coopered up. 5. To ‘do for’, spoil. slang. (Cf. cooper n.¹ 1c.) ΘΚΠ the world > existence and causation > creation > destruction > destroy [verb (transitive)] > bring to ruin or put an end to undoc950 shendOE forfarea1000 endc1000 to do awayOE aquenchc1175 slayc1175 slayc1175 stathea1200 tinea1300 to-spilla1300 batec1300 bleschea1325 honisha1325 leesea1325 wastec1325 stanch1338 corrumpa1340 destroy1340 to put awayc1350 dissolvec1374 supplanta1382 to-shend1382 aneantizec1384 avoidc1384 to put outa1398 beshenda1400 swelta1400 amortizec1405 distract1413 consumec1425 shelfc1425 abroge1427 downthringc1430 kill1435 poisonc1450 defeat1474 perish1509 to blow away1523 abrogatea1529 to prick (also turn, pitch) over the perka1529 dash?1529 to bring (also send) to (the) pot1531 put in the pot1531 wipea1538 extermine1539 fatec1540 peppera1550 disappoint1563 to put (also set) beside the saddle1563 to cut the throat of1565 to throw (also turn, etc.) over the perch1568 to make a hand of (also on, with)1569 demolish1570 to break the neck of1576 to make shipwreck of1577 spoil1578 to knock on (in) the head (also rarely at head)1579 cipher1589 ruinate1590 to cut off by the shins1592 shipwreck1599 exterminate1605 finish1611 damnify1612 ravel1614 braina1616 stagger1629 unrivet1630 consummate1634 pulverizea1640 baffle1649 devil1652 to blow up1660 feague1668 shatter1683 cook1708 to die away1748 to prove fatal (to)1759 to knock up1764 to knock (or kick) the hindsight out or off1834 to put the kibosh on1834 to cook (rarely do) one's goose1835 kibosh1841 to chaw up1843 cooper1851 to jack up1870 scuttle1888 to bugger up1891 jigger1895 torpedo1895 on the fritz1900 to put paid to1901 rot1908 down and out1916 scuppera1918 to put the skids under1918 stonker1919 liquidate1924 to screw up1933 cruel1934 to dig the grave of1934 pox1935 blow1936 to hit for six1937 to piss up1937 to dust off1938 zap1976 1851 H. Mayhew London Labour I. 351/2 The ring-dropping ‘lurk’ is now carried on this way, for the old style is ‘coopered’. 1874 Hotten's Slang Dict. (rev. ed.) 128 Cooper'd (spoilt) by too many tramps calling there. [Said of a house.] 1877 W. Besant & J. Rice This Son of Vulcan (new ed.) i. ix. 99 ‘The cove wasn't at home, and the slavey'd been changed, and the ken was coopered.’ This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online March 2022). > see also also refers to : copercoopern.² < n.¹c1415n.²1889v.1746 see also
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coopern.¹

coopern.²