cooper

See also: Cooper

English

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈkuːpə(ɹ)/
• Rhymes: -uːpə(ɹ)

Etymology 1

From coop +‎ -er.

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.
   • 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 57395299:

     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.

2. (obsolete) A drink of half stout and half porter.

Translations

craftsman

• Aromanian: dugar m
• Belarusian: бо́ндар m (bóndar)
• Bulgarian: бъчвар m (bǎčvar)
• Catalan: boter (ca) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 桶工 (tǒnggōng), 桶匠 (tǒngjiàng)

• Czech: bednář (cs) m
• Danish: bødker (da) c
• Dutch: kuiper (nl)
• Esperanto: barelfaristo
• Estonian: püttsepp, aamissepp (et)
• Finnish: tynnyrintekijä
• French: tonnelier (fr) m
• Galician: toneleiro, cubeiro (gl)
• Georgian: მეკასრე (meḳasre)
• German: Küfer (de) m, Böttcher (de) m, Fassbinder (de) m
• Hebrew: חַבְתָן‎ (habtan)
• Hungarian: kádár (hu), bodnár (hu), pintér (hu)
• Icelandic: beykir (is) m
• Ido: barelisto (io)

• Irish: cúipéir
• Italian: bottaio (it) m
• Japanese: 桶屋 (おけや, okeya)
• Korean: 통메장이 (tongmejang-i), 통장수 (tongjangsu)
• Latin: viētor m, tunnārius m
• Lithuanian: kubilius m
• Macedonian: бочвар m (bočvar)
• Norwegian: bøkker m
• Polish: bednarz (pl) m
• Portuguese: tanoeiro (pt) m
• Romanian: dogar (ro) m
• Russian: бо́ндарь (ru) m (bóndarʹ), бонда́рь (ru) m (bondárʹ), боча́р (ru) m (bočár)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: ба̏чва̄р m

  Roman: bȁčvār (sh) m

• Slovak: debnár m
• Slovene: sodar m
• Spanish: tonelero m
• Swedish: tunnbindare (sv) c
• Ukrainian: бо́ндар (uk) m (bóndar)

Verb

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

1. (now rare) To make and repair barrels etc.

Derived terms

• cooperage
• wine cooper

Etymology 2

Noun

cooper (plural coopers)

1. Alternative form of coper (“floating grog shop”)