cooperage
(ˈkuːpərɪdʒ)
[f. cooper n.1 + -age.]
1. A place where a cooper's trade is carried on.
| 1714 Lond. Gaz. No. 5246/2 A parcel of..unserviceable Staves..lying in the Cooperage. 1724 De Foe Tour Gt. Brit. (1748) I. 26 (D.) Room for erecting..warehouses, roap⁓walks, cooperages, &c. 1836 Marryat Midsh. Easy xviii. 63 That the meeting should take place behind the cooperage. 1888 Pall Mall G. 3 Nov. 9/1 To place a cooperage..at each fishery station along the south coast. |
2. The coopering of casks; cooper's work; the business or trade of a cooper; coopery.
| 1740–1 A. Hill Lett. in Wks. (1753) II. 112 The prime cost of caskage..with the care of their cooperage and ordering. 1746 in W. Thompson R.N. Advoc. (1757) 47 Good Cooperage will be found productive of good Package. 1800 Colquhoun Comm. Thames xiii. 376 The Cooperage, Hoops, and Nails, which such Cargo may require. 1818 W. Taylor in Monthly Rev. 490 The cooperage of the French hogsheads is also a subject of complaint. 1872 Yeats Hist. Comm. 140 In the latter part of the Middle Ages, the articles of cooperage were very numerous. |
3. Money payable to a cooper for his services.
| 1755 Johnson, Cooperage, the price paid for cooper's work. 1809 R. Langford Introd. Trade 131 Cooperage, money paid to a cooper who attends on the quays to mend casks, also to open them for samples. |
4. attrib.
| 1871 Daily News 5 Sept., They were compelled to pay heavy cooperage charges, though there was not a loose hoop nor a broken stave in the hold. Mod. Advt., A Plant of Cooperage Machines can be seen in daily operation. |