COOP

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

A barrel or cask for liquor. [Obs.] Johnson.

2.
n.

An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.

3.
n.

A cart made close with boarde; a tumbrel. [Scotch]

4.
v.

To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in. The Trojans coopet within their walls so long. Dryden. The contempt of all other knowledge . . . coops the understanding up within narrow bounds. Locke.

5.
v.

To work upon in the manner of a cooper. [Obs.] "Shaken tubs . . . be new cooped." Holland.

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