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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

COOP, n. [L, from bending, hollowness, or containing, holding. See Cup.]
1. A box of boards, grated or barred on one side, for keeping fowls in confinement. It is usually applied to long boxes for keeping poultry for fattening or conveyance on board of ships, as cage is used for a small box to keep singing birds in houses. I do not know that it is ever used in America for a pen to confine other animals.
2. A pen; an inclosed place for small animals.
3. A barrel or cask for the preservation of liquors.
4. A tumbrel or close cart.
[The three last sense, not American.]
COOP, v.t. To put in a coop; to confine in a coop. Hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; usually followed by up, to coop up; sometimes by in.
The Trojans cooped within their walls.
They are cooped in close by the laws of the country.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: a farm building for housing poultry [syn: chicken coop, coop, hencoop, henhouse]
2: an enclosure made or wire or metal bars in which birds or animals can be kept [syn: cage, coop]

Merriam Webster's

I. noun Etymology: Middle English cupe; akin to Old English cy?pe basket Date: 14th century 1. a cage or small enclosure (as for poultry); also a small building for housing poultry 2. a. a confined area b. jail II. transitive verb Date: 1583 1. to confine in a restricted and often crowded area — usually used with up <children cooped up in the house all day> 2. to place or keep in a coop ; pen — often used with up

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. & v. --n. 1 a cage placed over sitting or fattening fowls. 2 a fowl-run. 3 a small place of confinement, esp. a prison. 4 Brit. a basket used in catching fish. --v.tr. 1 put or keep (a fowl) in a coop. 2 (often foll. by up, in) confine (a person) in a small space. Etymology: ME cupe basket f. MDu., MLG kupe, ult. f. L cupa cask

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Coop Coop (k[=oo]p), n. [Cf. AS. cypa a measure, D. kuip tub, Icel. kupa bowl, G. kufe coop tub; all fr. L. cupa vat, tub, LL. cupa, copa, cup. See Cup, and cf. Keeve.] 1. A barrel or cask for liquor. [Obs.] --Johnson. 2. An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry. 3. A cart made close with boards; a tumbrel. [Scotch]

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

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.

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

(coops) A coop is a cage where you keep small animals or birds such as chickens and rabbits. N-COUNT

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

v. a. Confine, cage, incage, imprison, shut up.

Moby Thesaurus

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