Coop
[kuːp] or [kʊp]
Definition
(n.) A barrel or cask for liquor.
(n.) An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.
(n.) A cart made close with boards; a tumbrel.
(v. t.) To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in.
(v. t.) To work upon in the manner of a cooper.
Editor: Quentin
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Pen (for poultry).
v. a. Confine, cage, incage, imprison, shut up.
Typed by Juan
Synonyms and Antonyms
[See CONFINE]
Edited by Craig
Definition
n. a tub cask or barrel: a box or cage for fowls or small animals.—v.t. to confine in a coop: to shut up or confine.—n. Coop′er one who makes tubs casks &c.: a mixture of stout and porter.—v.t. to repair (tubs &c.): to prepare patch up.—ns. Coop′erage the work or workshop of a cooper: the sum paid for a cooper's work; Coop′ering; Coop′ery the business of a cooper.
Typist: Preston
Examples
- Come to my poor place, missus,' said Stephen, 'and tak a coop o' tea. Charles Dickens. Hard Times.
- The blank, unornamented coop had nothing about it of that oriental voluptuousness one reads of so much. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Will Miss Amy ride in her coop (coupe), and use all them lovely silver dishes that's stored away over yander? Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- To reproduce a Jerusalem street, it would only be necessary to up-end a chicken-coop and hang it before each window in an alley of American houses. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Or if we were all cooped up here waiting for it. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- That's the whole collection, said the old man, all cooped up together, by my noble and learned brother. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- Why have I never heard until the day before yesterday of your suffering yourself to be cooped up in jail? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- We can imagine the wretchedness of a curious mind, tormented by the craving for travel and knowledge, cooped up in these islands of empty romance. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
- The shops here are mere coops, mere boxes, bath-rooms, closets--any thing you please to call them--on the first floor. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
Typed by Carlyle