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coop¹
- /kuːp/ UK
- /kup/ Canada, US
- /kʉːp/ Australia, New Zealand
- /kʉp/ Northern Ireland, Scotland
- /kʊp/ US, dialectal
Sounds like coupe · Rhymes with -uːp
Where it comes from
From Middle English cǒupe, cupe, from Old English cȳpe (“basket, cask”) or possibly from Middle Dutch cûpe (compare modern Dutch kuip, Saterland Frisian kupe, Middle Low German kûpe), from Old Saxon *kûpa, côpa (“cask”) (compare Middle Low German kôpe, Old High German chôfa, chuofa, Middle High German kuofe, modern regional German Kufe f (“cask”)), probably from Latin cūpa, Medieval Latin cōpa (“cask”) (thus a doublet of coupe, cup, and keeve). However, the Oxford English Dictionary notes that if the word is from Latin, “it is difficult to account for the umlaut in Old English cýpe”.
noun coops
- A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals. Poorly ventilated coops are likely to result in losses by suffocation, particularly during hot weather, when the coops are overcrowded. The bottom of the coop should be built solid of one-half-inch boards to prevent the birds' toes from sticking through and being injured.
- A wickerwork basket (kipe) or other enclosure for catching fish. Falling in with a shoal of porpoises the vessel should be prepared with coops manufactured of copper wire, or other substance of great elasticity and strength; these coops to be lowered by blocks and pulleys in every direction round the vessel, and to be in the same manner hoisted when entered by th
- A narrow place of confinement, a cage; a jail, a prison. 'Tis the cruel gripe, / That lean hard-handed poverty inflicts, / The hope of better things, the chance to win, / The wiſh to ſhine, the thirſt to be amus'd, / That at the found of Winter's hoary wing, / Unpeople all our counties, of ſuch herds, / Of flutt'ring, loit'ring, cringing, begging, looſe,
- A barrel or cask for holding liquids. COOP. n. ſ. [kuype, Dutch.] 1. A barrel; a veſſel for the preſervation of liquids.
- An obstacle for a horse to jump over, shaped like an A-frame.
verb coops · cooping · cooped
- To keep in a coop. Generally, and dependent on situation, and the disposition of the hen, there is no necessity for cooping the brood beyond two or three days, but they may be confined as occasion requires or suffered to range, as they are much benefited by the scratching and foraging of the hen.
- To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp. But the contempt of all other knowledge, as if it were nothing in comparison of law or physic, of astronomy or chemistry, or perhaps some yet meaner part of knowledge, wherein I have got some smattering, or am somewhat advanced, is not only the mark of a vain or little mind; but does this prejudice
- To unlawfully confine one or more voters to prevent them from casting their ballots in an election. In 1819, one of those municipal contests for the election of the Common Council happened, and it was attended with that profuse expenditure of money in direct bribery, cooping, treating, and in short in all the modes of demoralizing the classes exposed to such influence, which were the disgraceful d
- Of a police officer: to sleep or relax while on duty. COOPING. The term cooping refers to police officers sleeping on duty. […] One critic of two-man squad cars suggests that this is a recipe for cooping, since one officer can drive while the other sleeps.
- To make or repair barrels, casks and other wooden vessels; to work upon in the manner of a cooper. When two dozen or more rings of iron were assembled around lengths of iron in this way they created a type of simple tube, termed a "barrel" from its manufacturing origin in cooping.
coop²
- /kuːp/ US, UK
- /kaʊp/ UK
Where it comes from
Possibly from coop, above. Sense 2 may be from English coup (“to tilt, overturn, upset”).
noun coops · coup
- A cart with sides and ends made from boards, enabling it to carry manure, etc. Fan Coops an' Carts were unco rare, / An' Creels, an' Corrocks boot to ſair. […]
- A cart which opens at the back to release its load; a tumbril. COOP, […] A cart, the box of which moves upon its shafts by hinges, by which means it may be emptied of its load without unyoking the horse, S. "The body of the cowp-cart is attached to the shafts by a peculiar kind of hinges, which allow of elevating it before, either partially or entirely, to faci
coop³
Where it comes from
Uncertain; compare English cop (“top, summit (especially of a hill); head”).
noun coops
- A small heap. COOP, s[ubstantive] A small heap, as, "A coop of muck," a heap of dung; Lanarks[hire].
coop⁴
- /ˈkəʊ.ɒp/ UK
- /ˈkoʊ.ɑp/ US
Where it comes from
From cooperative, by shortening.
noun coops
- Alternative form of co-op
Coop⁵
proper noun Coops
- A surname.
Coop⁶
Where it comes from
Clipping of Cooper.
proper noun Coops
- A surname.
- A male given name.
COOP⁷
noun
- Initialism of cross-origin opener policy
Translations
Every language
noun enclosure for birds
| Español | gallinero |
|---|---|
| 中文 | 籠子 /笼子 lóngzi |
| Português | galinheiro |
| Français | poulailler |
| Deutsch | Vogelheim, Hühnerstall |
| Italiano | stia, pollaio |
| Ελληνικά | κοτέτσι kotétsi |
| Русский | куря́тник kurjátnik, пти́чник ptíčnik |
| العربية | قُنّ qunn, خُمّ ḵumm |
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