1. (n.) A barrel or cask for liquor.
2. (n.) An enclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.
3. (n.) A cart made close with boards; a tumbrel.
4. (v. t.) To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in.
5. (v. t.) To work upon in the manner of a cooper.
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