Coopery

[f. COOPER sb.¹ + -Y³: see -ERY.] Cooper’s work; a cooper’s workshop; cooper’s ware. Also attrib.

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1558. Inventory of W. Pultney, Lichfield Registry. Item, in cowperye ware, xs.

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1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 562. To steep the wheat within certaine cooperie vessels, made of wood.

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1695. Lond. Gaz., No. 3116/4. To be Sold … all sorts of Basket, Coopery, and Turnery Wares.

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1852. P. Nicholson, Encycl. Archit., I. 199. The art of coopery is a curious branch of mechanism.

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1859. W. S. Coleman, Woodlands (1866), 89. It is much used … in mill work, turnery, and coopery.

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