Obs. or dial. rare. [A back-formation on COOPER sb.1] trans. ‘To hoop, to bind with hoops’ (Jamieson); = COOPER v.
Holland (in Webster, 1864), Shaken tubs … be new cooped.
17[?]. in Jacobite Relics (1821), II. 54. There was a cooper … He coopit a coggie for our gudwifie, And heigho! but he coopit it braw.
