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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



... in Mother Vauquer's coop—you, whose heart failed you to clutch old Taillefer's millions when the hardest part of the business was done—let me tell you, for your personal safety, that if you do not treat Lucien like the brother you love, you are in our power, while we are not in yours. ...
— Scenes from a Courtesan's Life • Honore de Balzac
... jangling wire, and the green door in the crumbling wall opened, and I saw an undersized woman—I saw Alphonsine! And her portrait, a life-sized caricature drawn by Octave, faced me from the white-washed wall of the hen-coop. He had drawn her two cats purring about her legs, and had written under it, "Ils viennent apres le mou." Her garden was a gravelled space; I think there was one tree in it. A tent had been stretched from wall to wall; and a seedy-looking waiter laid the ...
— Memoirs of My Dead Life • George Moore
... shall we do, huddled up here like chickens in a coop?" cried one. Salina, tell us a story; ...
— The Old Homestead • Ann S. Stephens
... Mr. Belding, who was giving his attention to a customer near the front of the store. "Take your friends back to Laura's coop, Chetwood." ...
— The Girls of Central High Aiding the Red Cross - Or Amateur Theatricals for a Worthy Cause • Gertrude W. Morrison
... families, straightway led them into all manner of high grass and weeds, by which means numerous young chicks caught premature colds and perished; and how, when I, with manifold toil, had driven one of these inconsiderate gadders into a coop, to teach her domestic habits, the rats came down upon her and slew every chick in one night; how my pigs were always practising gymnastic exercises over the fence of the sty, and marauding in the garden. I wonder that Fourier never conceived the idea of having his garden land ploughed by ...
— The May Flower, and Miscellaneous Writings • Harriet Beecher Stowe


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