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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