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Cooperage   Listen
noun
Cooperage  n.  
1.
Work done by a cooper.
2.
The price paid for coopers' work.
3.
A place where coopers' work is done.





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"Cooperage" Quotes from Famous Books



... COOPERAGE, a system of barter which has for some time gone on in the North Seas, consisting of exchange of spirits and tobacco for other goods or money, a demoralising traffic, which endeavours are now ...
— The Nuttall Encyclopaedia - Being a Concise and Comprehensive Dictionary of General Knowledge • Edited by Rev. James Wood
... narrative; and Swift's Tale of a Tub escaped, as it was assumed (there being no time to read any of the books, and in this respect John Cross showed himself much more of a professional critic than he conjectured) to be a treatise on one branch of the cooperage business, and so, important to domestic mechanics in a new country. The reader will remember the manner in which the library of the knight of La Mancha was disposed of. He would err, however, if he supposed that ...
— Charlemont • W. Gilmore Simms
... being, in this instance, to a man's advantage; the curing, packing and inspection of pork was regulated by the appointment of inspectors, whose fees were to be one shilling and six pence per barrel, exclusive of cooperage, with six pence a mile to the Inspector, for every mile he had to travel; L45 9s. 8d., advanced by His Majesty, through the Lieutenant Governor, for the purchase of hemp seed, and L229 8s. 6d., advanced for contingencies, clerks of Parliament ...
— The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation - Volume 1 • Charles Roger


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