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Coop   /kup/   Listen
noun
Coop  n.  
1.
A barrel or cask for liquor. (Obs.)
2.
An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.
3.
A cart made close with boards; a tumbrel. (Scotch)


verb
Coop  v. t.  (past & past part. cooped; pres. part. cooping)  
1.
To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; usually followed by up, sometimes by in. "The Trojans cooped within their walls so long." "The contempt of all other knowledge... coops the understanding up within narrow bounds."
2.
To work upon in the manner of a cooper. (Obs.) "Shaken tubs... be new cooped."
Synonyms: To crowd; confine; imprison.





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"Coop" Quotes from Famous Books



... her, and all her tail-feathers came out in a bunch right in my hand, and she squawked so, father heard. He was in his study writing his sermon, and he came out, and if I hadn't hid behind the chicken-coop and then run I couldn't have got here. But I can't see as you've got ...
— The Copy-Cat and Other Stories • Mary E. Wilkins Freeman
... His house is as good a one as can be built on a twenty-five-foot lot. The man who owns the corner building in Orchard Street, with the two adjoining tenements, has no heart. In the depth of last winter I found a family of poor Jews living in a coop under his stairs, an abandoned piece of hallway, in which their baby was born, and for which he made them pay eight dollars a month. It was the most outrageous case of landlord robbery I had ever ...
— The Battle with the Slum • Jacob A. Riis
... What happened during the next three days is an impenetrable mystery, but on October 3 (Wednesday) he was found in an election booth in Baltimore, desperately ill, his money and baggage gone. The most probable story is that he had been drugged by political workers, imprisoned in a "coop" with similar victims, and used as a repeater [1], this procedure being a common one at the time. Whether he was also intoxicated is a matter of doubt. There could be but one effect on his delicate and already diseased brain. He ...
— Selections From Poe • J. Montgomery Gambrill
... hens who had been watching the rooster jump at Raggedy ran up and as one old hen placed herself before the rooster, the other old hen caught hold of Raggedy's apron and dragged her into the chicken-coop. ...
— Raggedy Ann Stories • Johnny Gruelle
... and south-east, and with a favourable breeze, under easy sail, we stood to the northward. The next day O'Driscoll came aboard to dine with me. I had the turkey. The bird had made so many objections to remaining in the coop into which I put him, that I was obliged to kill him. He was consequently rather tough, but midshipmen's teeth don't stand at trifles, and we made ...
— Hurricane Hurry • W.H.G. Kingston


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