▪ I. hooper1
(ˈhuːpə(r))
[f. hoop v.1 + -er1.]
A craftsman who fits the hoops on casks, barrels, etc.; a cooper. Also, a maker of hoops.
| 1552 Huloet, Howper, vietor. 1554 T. Martin Priests Marr. Ll ij b, Euerye..tinker, tailour, hooper. 1765 J. Brown Chr. Jrnl. (1814) 55 Here stands the hooper: just now he set up the staves of his vessel. 1861 W. H. Russell in Times 12 July, A few of the Creole population..engaged as hoopers and stave-makers. |
▪ II. ˈhooper2
[f. hoop v.2 + -er1.]
1. One who hoops or cries ‘hoop’: only in hoopers hide, an old name of hide-and-seek; cf. hoop v.2 1 b.
| 1719 D'Urfey Pills I. 278 His Wife with Willy, Was playing at Hoopers-hide. |
2. The Whooping, Whistling, or Wild Swan, Cygnus musicus (ferus): so called from its cry.
| 1556 Withals Dict. (1568) 5 b/1 A hooper or wilde swanne, onocrotalus. 1686 Plot Staffordsh. 228 Hoopers or wild-Swans whose feet are not black, but of a dusky yellow. 1750 R. Pococke Trav. (1888) 95 A sort of swan..call'd a hooper. 1851 J. Colquhoun Moor & Loch (1880) I. 77 Four hoopers were discovered close to the shore. |