Tuesday, July 14, 2009

Coopers

A craftsman who makes and repairs wooden vessels formed of staves and hoops, as casks, buckets, and tubs.

"Any work for the Cooper?
Whene'er a vessel gets a bruize
By slipping off the stooper,
Old Farrell I would have you chuse,
As soon as any Cooper."

Cries of London (1784).

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