coop

noun8

1. •
   A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.

   • "Well," said Calvin, "we could go over to the chicken coop this afternoon when all the hens are inside laying eggs. We might find some clues." — 2011
2. •
   A wickerwork basket (kipe) or other enclosure for catching fish.

   • The rivers and estuaries of the country still abounded in fish, and the right of salmon-fishing by nets or "yairs" (coops) was jealously guarded by land-holders. — 1900
3. •
   (slang, figurative) A narrow place of confinement, a cage; a jail, a prison.

   • Why think to shut up all things in your narrow coop, when we know there are not one or two only, but ten, twenty, a thousand things, and unlike? — 1850
4. •
   An obstacle for a horse to jump over, shaped like an A-frame.
5. •
   (Scotland) A cart with sides and ends made from boards, enabling it to carry manure, etc.

   • Fan Coops an' Carts were unco rare, / An' Creels, an' Corrocks boot to sair. […] — 1794
6. •
   (Scotland) A cart which opens at the back to release its load; a tumbril.
7. •
   (Scotland) A small heap.

   • COOP, s[ubstantive] A small heap, as, "A coop of muck," a heap of dung; Lanarks[hire]. — 1825
8. •
   (no longer used) A barrel or cask for holding liquids.

   • COOP. n. s. [kuype, Dutch.] 1. A barrel; a vessel for the preservation of liquids. — 1755

verb5

1. •
   To keep in a coop.
2. •
   To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp.

   • The Trojans coop'd within their walls so long, / Unbar their gates, and issue in a throng, / Like swarming bees, and with delight survey / The camp deserted where the Grecians lay; […] — 1788
3. •
   (historical) To unlawfully confine one or more voters to prevent them from casting their ballots in an election.
4. •
   (slang) Of a police officer: to sleep or relax while on duty.

   • This cynicism may lead to an increased number of job actions and deviance, such as the "blue flu" or "cooping." — 2012
5. •
   (no longer used) To make or repair barrels, casks and other wooden vessels; to work upon in the manner of a cooper.

   • When two dozen or more rings of iron were assembled around lengths of iron in this way they created a type of simple tube, termed a "barrel" from its manufacturing origin in cooping. — 2006

noun1

1. •
   (Internet) Initialism of cross-origin opener policy.

noun1

1. •
   Abbreviation of cooperative.