Word Meanings - COOP - Book Publishers vocabulary database

G. kufe coop tub; all fr. L. cupa vat, tub, LL. cupa, copa, cup. See 1. A barrel or cask for liquor. Johnson. 2. An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry. 3. A cart made close with boarde;

Additional info about word: COOP

G. kufe coop tub; all fr. L. cupa vat, tub, LL. cupa, copa, cup. See 1. A barrel or cask for liquor. Johnson. 2. An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry. 3. A cart made close with boarde; a tumbrel.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COOP)

• Pound
• Imprison
• cage
• coop

Related words: (words related to COOP)

• POUNDKEEPER; POUND-KEEPER
  The keeper of a pound.
• POUNDCAKE
  A kind of rich, sweet cake; -- so called from the ingredients being used by pounds, or in equal quantities.
• POUND
  1. To strike repeatedly with some heavy instrument; to beat. With cruel blows she pounds her blubbered cheeks. Dryden. 2. To comminute and pulverize by beating; to bruise or break into fine particles with a pestle or other heavy instrument; as,
• IMPRISON
  1. To put in prison or jail; To arrest and detain in custody; to confine. He imprisoned was in chains remediles. Spenser. 2. To limit, restrain, or confine in any way. Try to imprison the resistless wind. Dryden. Syn. -- To incarcerate; confine;
• POUNDER
  1. One who, or that which, pounds, as a stamp in an ore mill. 2. An instrument used for pounding; a pestle. 3. A person or thing, so called with reference to a certain number of pounds in value, weight, capacity, etc.; as, a cannon carrying
• POUNDING
  1. The act of beating, bruising, or breaking up; a beating. 2. A pounded or pulverized substance. "Covered with the poundings of these rocks." J. S. Blackie.
• IMPRISONMENT
  The act of imprisoning, or the state of being imprisoned; confinement; restraint. His sinews waxen weak and raw Through long imprisonment and hard constraint. Spenser. Every confinement of the person is an imprisonment, whether it be in a common
• POUNDRATE
  A rate or proportion estimated at a certain amount for each pound; poundage.
• IMPRISONER
  One who imprisons.
• POUND-BREACH
  The breaking of a public pound for releasing impounded animals. Blackstone.
• POUNDAGE
  The sum allowed to a sheriff or other officer upon the amount realized by an execution; -- estimated in England, and formerly in the United States, at so much of the pound. Burrill. Bouvier. (more info) 1. A sum deducted from a pound, or a certain
• POUNDAL
  A unit of force based upon the pound, foot, and second, being the force which, acting on a pound avoirdupois for one second, causes it to acquire by the of that time a velocity of one foot per second. It is about equal to the weight of
• TEN-POUNDER
  A large oceanic fish found in the tropical parts of all the oceans. It is used chiefly for bait.
• ASSAY POUND
  A small standard weight used in assaying bullion, etc., sometimes equaling 0.5 gram, but varying with the assayer.
• IMPOUNDER
  One who impounds.
• REIMPRISON
  To imprison again.
• COMPOUNDER
  A Jacobite who favored the restoration of James II, on condition of a general amnesty and of guarantees for the security of the civil and ecclesiastical constitution of the realm. (more info) 1. One who, or that which, compounds or mixes; as, a
• COMPOUNDABLE
  That may be compounded.
• MISEXPOUND
  To expound erroneously.
• IMPOUNDAGE
  1. The act of impounding, or the state of being impounded. 2. The fee or fine for impounding.
• COMPOUND CONTROL
  A system of control in which a separate manipulation, as of a rudder, may be effected by either of two movements, in different directions, of a single lever, etc.
• IMPOUND
  To shut up or place in an inclosure called a pound; hence, to hold in the custody of a court; as, to impound stray cattle; to impound a document for safe keeping. But taken and impounded as a stray, The king of Scots. Shak.
• PROPOUNDER
  One who propounds, proposes, or offers for consideration. Chillingworth.
• REIMPRISONMENT
  The act of reimprisoning, or the state of being reimprisoned.
• SUPRADECOMPOUND
  More than decompound; divided many times.