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cooping |
1 definition found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: Coop \Coop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cooped}; p. pr & vb n. {Cooping}.] To confine in a coop; hence to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up sometimes by in The Trojans cooped within their walls so long. --Dryden. The contempt of all other knowledge . . . coops the understanding up within narrow bounds. --Locke. 2. To work upon in the manner of a cooper. [Obs.] ``Shaken tubs . . . be new cooped.'' --Holland. Syn: To crowd; confine; imprison.
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