cooper

Noun

cooper (countable and uncountable, plural coopers)

1. A craftsman who makes and repairs barrels and similar wooden vessels such as casks, buckets and tubs.
   • They were nearly all whalemen; chief mates, and second mates, and third mates, and sea carpenters, and sea coopers, and sea blacksmiths, and harpooneers, and ship keepers; a brown and brawny company, with bosky beards; an unshorn, shaggy set, all wearing monkey jackets for morning gowns.1851 November 14, Herman Melville, chapter 5, in Moby-Dick; or, The Whale, 1st American edition, New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers; London: Richard Bentley, →OCLC
2. (obsolete) A drink of half stout and half porter.

Verb

cooper (third-person singular simple present coopers, present participle coopering, simple past and past participle coopered)

1. (archaic) To make and repair barrels etc.
2. (obsolete, slang, transitive) To forge or imitate (writing).
   • […] though, owing to his forged signatures having been too often detected, he was declared to be "a duffer at coopering a monekur."1872, Augustus Mayhew, Paved with Gold, page 269
3. (obsolete, slang, transitive) To intentionally injure (a racehorse) to spoil its chances of winning.
   • Every design that villainy could suggest was had recourse to in the hopes of nobbling Wild Dayrell; but never being left for an hour by either his trainer or jockey, he escaped the intended 'coopering', even when the lynchpins of the wheels of his van had been tampered with.1864, Baily's Magazine of Sports & Pastimes, volume 8, page 110

Proper noun capitalized: Cooper

US/ˈkupɚ/

Cooper (countable and uncountable, plural Coopers)

1. (countable) An English surname originating as an occupation of cooper.
   • The young lady, who made her firſt appearance in Lady Bab Lardoon, at the Haymarket on Monday night laſt, is a Miſs Prideaux, and lineally deſcended from one of the daughters and co-heireſſes of the Right Hon. John Wilmot, the witty Earl of Rocheſter, and conſequently related to the Sandwiches...1788 July 10, “Friday’s Post”, in The Ipswich Journal, number 3026, Ipswich, Suffolk, published 12 July 1788, page [2], column 1
   • On the invitation list: Govs. Andy Beshear of Kentucky, Tim Walz of Minnesota, J.B. Pritzker of Illinois, Gretchen Whitmer of Michigan, Tony Evers of Wisconsin, Josh Shapiro of Pennsylvania, Roy Cooper of North Carolina, Wes Moore of Maryland and Michelle Lujan Grisham of New Mexico.2024 February 7, Edward-Isaac Dovere, “Harris set to host Democratic governors this weekend to discuss 2024 campaign”, in CNN, archived from the original on 18 Feb 2024
2. (countable) A male given name transferred from the surname.
3. An unincorporated community in Monterey County, California.
4. An unincorporated community in Tazewell County, Illinois.
5. An unincorporated community in Greene County, Iowa.
6. An unincorporated community in Wayne County, Kentucky.
7. A small town in Washington County, Maine.
8. A neighbourhood in south Minneapolis, Minnesota.
9. A locality in West Milford township, Passaic County, New Jersey.
10. An unincorporated community in Seneca County, Ohio.
11. A city, the county seat of Delta County, Texas.
12. An unincorporated community in Houston County, Texas.