What does "coop" mean?
Coop: An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.
Additional senses
- 2.A cart made close with boarde; a tumbrel. [Scotch]
- 3.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 coopet within their walls so long. Dryden. The contempt of all other knowledge . . . coops the understanding up within narrow bounds. Locke.
- 4.To work upon in the manner of a cooper. [Obs.] "Shaken tubs . . . be new cooped." Holland.
Sources
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
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