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cooperage

cooperage

8.5
A place where wooden barrels are made or stored
  • noun
  • /ˈkuːpərɪdʒ/
translation icon : tonelería
  • Susannah's father owns one of London's largest cooperages, where they make traditional wooden casks.

Examples

  • Nevers and Alliers oak made into barrels by companies he refers to as tonnelleries rather than 'cooperages' even when they don't.

    Blog text (18)

  • The owner's living in town now, has a cooperage down at the end of Main, past the livery.

    The Missouri Breaks (1976)

  • I'll go over at the cooperage and ask Mr. Cannon about them four sections.

    The Missouri Breaks (1976)

  • Not my cooperage.

    Jabberwocky (1977)

  • Susannah's father owns one of London's largest cooperages.

    The Staying Kind (2018)

  • They rounded the bend toward the Cooperage Stadium and approached a red-and-white school bus parked below the similarly painted school building.

    Fiction book (2001)

  • The local cooperage is known for crafting high-quality barrels used in wine production.

  • Every summer, visitors can tour the cooperage and see how barrels are made by skilled artisans.

Synonyms

coopering
vscooperage
  • Specialized
9.8

Making and repairing wooden barrels used to store wine or beer

is broader, also meaning the workshop, storage site, or the barrels themselves

Surface Forms

cooperage singular
cooperages plural

Morphology

cooperage = cooper (semi-transparent) = cooper + age

The word is built from 'cooper' plus '-age', but the resulting senses are specialized and not fully predictable for an average learner.

Etymology

The word cooperage comes from cooper, meaning 'barrel maker', and the ending -age, meaning 'place' or 'craft'. So a cooperage is the workshop or the craft where wooden 'barrels' are made.