coop
coop is defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913) with 4 senses, and appears in Roget's Thesaurus (1911) with 40 related terms. The full text of each entry is reproduced verbatim below.
Definitions
- 1.An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.
- 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.
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Synonyms
Synonyms (Webster's 1913)
Source: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
Related terms (Roget's 1911)
- avoid
- avoidance
- avolation
- away
- bacon
- belle
- bird
- break
- call
- clear
- close
- collar
- come
- creep
- deliverance
- disappear
- drawbridge
- effect
- elopement
- elude
- escape
- evasion
- find
- fire
- fled
- flight
- flown
- from
- fugitive
- get
- give
- good
- hairbreadth
- has
- hole
- impunity
- jail
- liberation
- loophole
- loose
Source: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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Sources
- Definitions: Webster's Unabridged Dictionary, 1913 edition (public domain, via GCIDE / Project Gutenberg).
- Synonyms & antonyms: Roget's Thesaurus, 1911 edition (public domain, via Project Gutenberg eBook #10681).
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