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Definition of Coopery
1. a. Relating to a cooper; coopered.
2. n. The occupation of a cooper.
Definition of Coopery
1. Noun. Cooperage. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Coopery
1. the trade of coopering [n -ERIES]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Coopery
Literary usage of Coopery
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Elizabethan Critical Essays by George Gregory Smith (1904)
"... coopery ie Thomas Cooper (? 1517-94), Bishop of Lincoln (1570), and Bishop of
Winchester (1584). He compiled the books popularly known as Cooper's ..."
2. The Evolution of Modern Capitalism: A Study of Machine Production by John Atkinson Hobson (1901)
"Colman, at Norwich, comprise among others the following subsidiary
departments:—coopery, engineering shop, saw mills, box-making, packing, paper-making, ..."
3. The Overland Monthly by Bret Harte (1869)
"... wagon-making, coopery, and other sorts of hard-handed industry, were in noisy
blast along the roadside. In South Carolina all this vulgar buz/, ..."
4. Afoot and Alone: A Walk from Sea to Sea by the Southern Route. Adventures by Stephen Powers (1872)
"... picking the shredded cotton out of his wool. " Yon make a prodigious screeching,
uncle." In North Carolina blacksmithing, coopery, and other sorts of ..."
5. The Antiquary by Edward Walford, John Charles Cox, George Latimer Apperson (1892)
"... abbot's stable, office of the master- cook or purveyor, house of menial
servants, coopery, fruit store and wine-press, office of the vineyard manager, ..."
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