coop
nounEtymology
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”.
- derived from cûpe
Definitions
A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.
- "Well," said Calvin, "we could go over to the chicken coop this afternoon when all the hens are inside laying eggs. We might find some clues."
A wickerwork basket (kipe) or other enclosure for catching fish.
- The rivers and estuaries of the country still abounded in fish, and the right of salmon-fishing by nets or "yairs" (coops) was jealously guarded by land-holders.
A narrow place of confinement, a cage
A narrow place of confinement, a cage; a jail, a prison.
- Why think to shut up all things in your narrow coop, when we know there are not one or two only, but ten, twenty, a thousand things, and unlike?
- Lou Brent rolled from his cot, got to his feet on the floor of the tiny coop.
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A barrel or cask for holding liquids.
- COOP. n. ſ. [kuype, Dutch.] 1. A barrel; a veſſel for the preſervation of liquids.
- COOP, n. […] 3. A barrel or cask for the preservation of liquors.
An obstacle for a horse to jump over, shaped like an A-frame.
To keep in a coop.
- Under a shed, where the ground is clean dust mixed with small stones, is a good place for cooping the hen for the first ten days or so; and she may after that be placed on the grass in dry weather, but not before the dew is off it.
To shut up or confine in a narrow space
To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp.
- The Trojans coop'd within their walls ſo long, / Unbar their gates, and iſſue in a throng, / Like ſwarming bees, and with delight ſurvey / The camp deſerted where the Grecians lay; […]
- The hard hearted villains cooped the cowboy up in a barrel and rolled him out on the prairie to die of thirst and starvation.
To unlawfully confine one or more voters to prevent them from casting their ballots in an…
To unlawfully confine one or more voters to prevent them from casting their ballots in an election.
Of a police officer
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 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.
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 cart which opens at the back to release its load; a tumbril.
A small heap.
- COOP, s[ubstantive] A small heap, as, "A coop of muck," a heap of dung; Lanarks[hire].
Alternative form of co-op.
A surname.
Diminutive of Cooper.
Initialism of cross-origin opener policy.
The neighborhood
- neighborKoop
Derived
coopful, encoop, fly the coop, incoop, uncoop, coop in, coop up, hide and coop
Vish — recursive loop
No curated loop yet for coop. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.
sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA