Examples from literature

• An ale-brewer may employ in his service one cooper only to bind, hoop and pin, but not to make, his master's ale vessels. 
• He was a cooper by trade. 
• Here, among snakes, bears, and panthers, whenever my strength was sufficient, I cut down a juniper-tree, and converted it into cooper's timber. 
• John, tiring of the trade of cooper, to which he was apprenticed, ran away to sea. 
• The cooper's house was so roomy that each guest had his separate retiring-room, to which they were ushered with all due ceremony, while the plentiful supper was in the act of being placed upon the table.