Other forms: coopers
A cooper is a craftsman who makes barrels. Trained as a cooper.
A barrel is held together by nothing but shaped staves and iron hoops, with no glue. A cooper is still employed by whisky distilleries, where the cask does much of the flavouring.
1nouncooperA craftsman who makes barrels.
“The cooper made three hundred casks a year.”
cooper is a craftsman.
Middle Dutch
cûpe
English
coop
English, today
cooper
Built from
From coop + -er. coop comes from coupe, cupe, from cȳpe or possibly from Middle Dutch cûpe (compare modern Dutch kuip, stq kupe, Middle Low German kûpe), from kûpa, côpa (“cask”) (compare Middle Low German kôpe, Old High German chôfa, chuofa, Middle High German kuofe, modern regional German Kufe (“cask”)), probably from cupa, copa (thus a a doublet of coupe and cup and keeve). However, the Oxford English Dictionary notes that if the word is from Latin, “it is difficult to account for the umlaut in cýpe*”.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA