• IPA: /ˈkuːpə(ɹ)/

cooper (plural coopers)

1. A craftsman who makes and repairs barrels and similar wooden vessels such as casks, buckets and tubs.
   • 1851 November 13, 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.

• French: tonnelier
• German: Küfer, Böttcher, Fassbinder
• Italian: bottaio
• Portuguese: tanoeiro
• Russian: бо́ндарь
• Spanish: tonelero

cooper (coopers, present participle coopering; past and past participle coopered)

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

cooper (plural coopers)

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

1. Surname derived from cooper.
2. A male given name.
3. A small town in Washington County, Maine.
4. An unincorporated community in Seneca County, Ohio.
5. A city/county seat in Delta County, Texas.
6. An unincorporated community in Houston County, Texas.