Coop

·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.

coop
1) a fish coop, a hollow vessel made of twigs, with which they take fish in the Humber. N. 2) a muc...

A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
coop
, or fish-coop. A hollow vessel made with twigs, with which fish are taken in the Humber. (See hen...

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fish-coop
See coop ...

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