cooper

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

• 🇫🇷Artisan qualifié qui fabrique ou répare des tonneaux en bois, des barriques et des récipients similaires.

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.

   🇫🇷tonnelier

• 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.

• 🇫🇷Verbe désuet signifiant fabriquer ou réparer des tonneaux ou des barriques ; également utilisé au sens figuré pour raccommoder ou corriger.

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.

   🇫🇷Faire ou réparer des tonneaux