cooper

A skilled craftsperson who constructs or repairs wooden barrels, casks, and similar containers.

• 🇩🇪Ein Handwerker, der Holzfässer, Bottiche und ähnliche Behälter herstellt oder repariert.

1. Barrel maker C1 formal

   A skilled craftsperson who makes or repairs wooden barrels, casks, and other similar containers.

   • The cooper carefully shaped the wooden staves for the barrel.
   • In the old days, every winery employed a cooper to maintain their casks.
   • The cooper's workshop smelled of oak and sawdust.

   🇩🇪Fassbinder

• coopers plural form
• coopers' possessive plural form
• cooper's possessive singular form

An archaic verb meaning to make or repair barrels or casks; also used figuratively to mean to mend or patch up.

• 🇩🇪Veralteter Ausdruck für das Herstellen oder Reparieren von Fässern oder Tonnen; wird auch übertragen für das Ausbessern oder Instandsetzen verwendet.

1. Make barrels and casks C1 formal

   To make or repair barrels, casks, and other wooden containers.

   • The craftsman learned to cooper from his father.
   • They cooper the oak staves into wine barrels.
   • He spent years learning how to cooper traditional casks.

   🇩🇪Fässer herstellen