coop

Etymology 1
From, , from or possibly from  (compare modern 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬), from ,  (compare 🇨🇬, 🇨🇬, , 🇨🇬, modern 🇨🇬), probably from ,  (thus a ). However, the  notes that if the word is from Latin, “it is difficult to account for the umlaut in Old English cýpe”.

Noun

 * 1) A basket, pen or enclosure for birds or small animals.
 * 2) A wickerwork basket (kipe) or other enclosure for catching fish.
 * 3)  A narrow place of confinement, a cage; a jail, a prison.
 * 4) * 1785,, “The Garden”, in The Task, a Poem, in Six Books. By William Cowper [...] To which are Added, by the Same Author, An Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq. Tirocinium, or a Review of Schools, and The History of John Gilpin, London: Printed for J[oseph] Johnson, No. 72 St. Paul's Church-Yard, 221351486 ; republished as The Task. A Poem. In Six Books. To which is Added, Tirocinium: or, A Review of Schools, new edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Printed for Thomas Dobson, bookseller, in Second-street, second door above Chestnut-street, 1787,  23630717 , page 87:
 * 'Tis the cruel gripe, / That lean hard-handed poverty inflicts, / The hope of better things, the chance to win, / The wiſh to ſhine, the thirſt to be amus'd, / That at the found of Winter's hoary wing, / Unpeople all our counties, of ſuch herds, / Of flutt'ring, loit'ring, cringing, begging, looſe, / And wanton vagrants, as make London, vaſt / And boundless as it is, a crowded coop.
 * 1) * 1968,, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American; being the Vocabularies of Crooks, Criminals, Racketeers, Beggars and Tramps, Convicts, the Commercial Underworld, the Drug Traffic, the White Slave Traffic, Spivs, 3rd edition, rev. and much enl., London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 311502654 ; republished as A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: , ISBN 978-1-317-44552-4 :
 * coop. A (gen., from ca. 1880, a country-town) prison: 1785, Sessions Papers of the Old Bailey, Sept., p. 1111, 'He has been in coop for a week';
 * 1)  A barrel or cask for holding liquids.
 * 1)  A narrow place of confinement, a cage; a jail, a prison.
 * 2) * 1785,, “The Garden”, in The Task, a Poem, in Six Books. By William Cowper [...] To which are Added, by the Same Author, An Epistle to Joseph Hill, Esq. Tirocinium, or a Review of Schools, and The History of John Gilpin, London: Printed for J[oseph] Johnson, No. 72 St. Paul's Church-Yard, 221351486 ; republished as The Task. A Poem. In Six Books. To which is Added, Tirocinium: or, A Review of Schools, new edition, Philadelphia, Pa.: Printed for Thomas Dobson, bookseller, in Second-street, second door above Chestnut-street, 1787,  23630717 , page 87:
 * 'Tis the cruel gripe, / That lean hard-handed poverty inflicts, / The hope of better things, the chance to win, / The wiſh to ſhine, the thirſt to be amus'd, / That at the found of Winter's hoary wing, / Unpeople all our counties, of ſuch herds, / Of flutt'ring, loit'ring, cringing, begging, looſe, / And wanton vagrants, as make London, vaſt / And boundless as it is, a crowded coop.
 * 1) * 1968,, A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American; being the Vocabularies of Crooks, Criminals, Racketeers, Beggars and Tramps, Convicts, the Commercial Underworld, the Drug Traffic, the White Slave Traffic, Spivs, 3rd edition, rev. and much enl., London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 311502654 ; republished as A Dictionary of the Underworld: British and American, Abingdon, Oxon.; New York, N.Y.: , ISBN 978-1-317-44552-4 :
 * coop. A (gen., from ca. 1880, a country-town) prison: 1785, Sessions Papers of the Old Bailey, Sept., p. 1111, 'He has been in coop for a week';
 * 1)  A barrel or cask for holding liquids.
 * coop. A (gen., from ca. 1880, a country-town) prison: 1785, Sessions Papers of the Old Bailey, Sept., p. 1111, 'He has been in coop for a week';
 * 1)  A barrel or cask for holding liquids.

Translations

 * Arabic: قُنّ, خُمّ
 * Egyptian Arabic: عشة
 * Belarusian: кату́х, кура́тнік
 * Bulgarian: ,
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin:
 * Classical Nahuatl: tōtolcalli
 * Czech:
 * Esperanto: kokejo
 * Finnish: lintuhäkki, lintukoppi, lintutalo
 * French:
 * Galician: capoeira, ,
 * German: Vogelheim,
 * Greek:
 * Irish: cúb
 * Italian: ,
 * Latin: hara
 * Macedonian: кокошарник
 * Malay:
 * Ottoman Turkish: كومس, طاوقلق
 * Persian:
 * Polish:
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbo-Croatian:
 * Cyrillic: кокоши́њац
 * Roman:
 * Slovak:
 * Slovene:
 * Spanish:
 * Tagalog: tangkal
 * Thai:
 * Turkish: ,
 * Ukrainian: ку́рник, пта́шник, ко́єць

Verb

 * 1)  To keep in a coop.
 * 2)  To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp.
 * 3) * 1706,, “”, in Posthumous works of Mr. John Locke: viz. I. Of the Conduct of the Understanding. II. An Examination of P. Malebranche's Opinion of Seeing All Things in God. III. A Discourse of Miracles. IV. Part of a Fourth Letter for Toleration. V. Memoirs Relating to the Life of Anthony First Earl of Shaftsbury. To which is Added, VI. His New Method of a Common-Place-Book, Written Originally in French, and Now Translated into English, London: Printed by W. B. for A. and J. Churchill at the Black Swan in Pater-Noster-Row; republished in The Works of John Locke. In Ten Volumes, volume III, 10th edition, London: Printed for J[oseph] Johnson [et al.], 1801, 53106290 , page 223:
 * But the contempt of all other knowledge, as if it were nothing in comparison of law or physic, of astronomy or chemistry, or perhaps some yet meaner part of knowledge, wherein I have got some smattering, or am somewhat advanced, is not only the mark of a vain or little mind; but does this prejudice in the conduct of the understanding, that it coops it up within narrow bounds, and hinders it from looking abroad into other provinces of the intellectual world,
 * 1)  To unlawfully confine one or more voters to prevent them from casting their ballots in an election.
 * 2)  Of a police officer: to sleep or relax while on duty.
 * 3)  To make or repair barrels, casks and other wooden vessels; to work upon in the manner of a cooper.
 * But the contempt of all other knowledge, as if it were nothing in comparison of law or physic, of astronomy or chemistry, or perhaps some yet meaner part of knowledge, wherein I have got some smattering, or am somewhat advanced, is not only the mark of a vain or little mind; but does this prejudice in the conduct of the understanding, that it coops it up within narrow bounds, and hinders it from looking abroad into other provinces of the intellectual world,
 * 1)  To unlawfully confine one or more voters to prevent them from casting their ballots in an election.
 * 2)  Of a police officer: to sleep or relax while on duty.
 * 3)  To make or repair barrels, casks and other wooden vessels; to work upon in the manner of a cooper.
 * 1)  Of a police officer: to sleep or relax while on duty.
 * 2)  To make or repair barrels, casks and other wooden vessels; to work upon in the manner of a cooper.
 * 1)  Of a police officer: to sleep or relax while on duty.
 * 2)  To make or repair barrels, casks and other wooden vessels; to work upon in the manner of a cooper.
 * 1)  To make or repair barrels, casks and other wooden vessels; to work upon in the manner of a cooper.
 * 1)  To make or repair barrels, casks and other wooden vessels; to work upon in the manner of a cooper.
 * 1)  To make or repair barrels, casks and other wooden vessels; to work upon in the manner of a cooper.
 * 1)  To make or repair barrels, casks and other wooden vessels; to work upon in the manner of a cooper.
 * 1)  To make or repair barrels, casks and other wooden vessels; to work upon in the manner of a cooper.

Etymology 2
Possibly from coop, above. Sense 2 may be from 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A cart with sides and ends made from boards, enabling it to carry manure, etc.
 * 2)  A cart which opens at the back to release its load; a tumbril.
 * 1)  A cart which opens at the back to release its load; a tumbril.

Etymology 3

 * compare 🇨🇬.

Noun

 * 1)  A small heap.

Etymology 4
From, by shortening.