0 a person who makes and repairs barrels (= large wooden containers with a flat top and curved sides, used for holding beer, wine, etc.)
An ale-brewer may employ in his service one cooper only to bind, hoop and pin, but not to make, his master's ale vessels.
Here, among snakes, bears, and panthers, whenever my strength was sufficient, I cut down a juniper-tree, and converted it into cooper's timber.
John, tiring of the trade of cooper, to which he was apprenticed, ran away to sea.
The cooper's house was so roomy that each guest had his separate retiring-room, to which they were ushered with all due ceremony, while the plentiful supper was in the act of being placed upon the table.
Cooper 1989 proposes asking a number of questions about language policy.
Cooper chose not to interview large numbers of men for fear of losing the trust of her women informants.
Cooper is absolutely right to warn us not to over-emphasize the data collected by colonial officials.