Coop

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun A barrel or cask for liquor.

II. Coop ·noun A cart made close with boards; a tumbrel.

III. Coop ·vt To work upon in the manner of a cooper.

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

V. Coop ·vt To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to Cramp;

— usually followed by up, sometimes by in.