Meaning of Coop | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Initialism of cross-origin opener policy.
   Internet, abbreviation, alt-of, initialism
2. A cart with sides and ends made from boards, enabling it to carry manure, etc.
   England, Scotland, regional
3. A small heap.
   Scotland
4. A surname.
5. Dated spelling of co-op.
   no-plural, uncommon
6. A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.
7. A wickerwork basket (kipe) or other enclosure for catching fish.
8. A cart which opens at the back to release its load; a tumbril.
   England, Scotland, regional
9. A male given name.
10. A narrow place of confinement, a cage; a jail, a prison.
    figuratively, slang
11. A barrel or cask for holding liquids.
    obsolete
12. An obstacle for a horse to jump over, shaped like an A-frame.

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Examples

“Poorly ventilated coops are likely to result in losses by suffocation, particularly during hot weather, when the coops are overcrowded. The bottom of the coop should be built solid of one-half-inch boards to prevent the birds' toes from sticking through and being injured.”

“"Well," said Calvin, "we could go over to the chicken coop this afternoon when all the hens are inside laying eggs. We might find some clues."”

“With this collection of 14 coop designs, our hope is to expand the definition of what a chicken coop is or could be. Surely, building more time-tested coop structures would be sufficient, and we love the traditional coops out there. […] How can chicken coops better serve users in the contemporary world? How can they look and function differently? What kinds of materials can be used? Can chicken coops be treated like a piece of outdoor furniture? Can chicken coops serve multiple purposes in a well-functioning small urban farm?”

“Falling in with a shoal of porpoises the vessel should be prepared with coops manufactured of copper wire, or other substance of great elasticity and strength; these coops to be lowered by blocks and pulleys in every direction round the vessel, and to be in the same manner hoisted when entered by the fish.”

“At a Court held 10th December, 1868, the Special Commissioners for English Fisheries made an order declaring to be legal, subject to certain alterations, a coop or fishing apparatus of the respondent, situated at Salmon Hall, near Workington, in the river Derwent, in the county of Cumberland, which the respondent claimed to use as legal. […] The said coop is a fishing-box or apparatus inserted in or forming part of the structure of a dam built across the river Derwent, […]”

“The rivers and estuaries of the country still abounded in fish, and the right of salmon-fishing by nets or "yairs" (coops) was jealously guarded by land-holders.”

“'Tis the cruel gripe, / That lean hard-handed poverty inflicts, / The hope of better things, the chance to win, / The wiſh to ſhine, the thirſt to be amus'd, / That at the found of Winter's hoary wing, / Unpeople all our counties, of ſuch herds, / Of flutt'ring, loit'ring, cringing, begging, looſe, / And wanton vagrants, as make London, vaſt / And boundless as it is, a crowded coop.”

“Why think to shut up all things in your narrow coop, when we know there are not one or two only, but ten, twenty, a thousand things, and unlike?”

“Lou Brent rolled from his cot, got to his feet on the floor of the tiny coop.”

“coop. A (gen., from ca. 1880, a country-town) prison: 1785, Sessions Papers of the Old Bailey, Sept., p. 1111, 'He has been in coop for a week'; […]”

“COOP. n. ſ. [kuype, Dutch.] 1. A barrel; a veſſel for the preſervation of liquids.”

“COOP, n. […] 3. A barrel or cask for the preservation of liquors.”

“Fan Coops an' Carts were unco rare, / An' Creels, an' Corrocks boot to ſair. […]”

“COOP, […] A cart, the box of which moves upon its shafts by hinges, by which means it may be emptied of its load without unyoking the horse, S. "The body of the cowp-cart is attached to the shafts by a peculiar kind of hinges, which allow of elevating it before, either partially or entirely, to facilitate the discharge of its load backwards, either by degrees into small heaps, or at once, without the trouble of unyoking the shaft horse." Agr. Surv. of Berw. p. 167. As used in the latter sense, the term is obviously from the v. to Coup, to overturn.”

“COOP, s[ubstantive] A small heap, as, "A coop of muck," a heap of dung; Lanarks[hire].”

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