[f. STOOP v.1 + -ER1.]
1. (See quot. 1854.)
1784. Cries of London, 101. Any Work for the Cooper?… Whene’er a vessel gets a bruize By slipping off the stooper, Old Farrell I would have you chuse, As soon as any Cooper.
1854. Miss Baker, Northampt. Gloss., Stooper, a wedge for stooping or tilting a barrel.
2. One who stoops or bends down; one who has a stoop.
1892. Daily News, 3 March, 5/3. At one lace-making village … it was observed that there were no ‘stoopers’ except the invalids and weakly ones.
1912. D. Crawford, Thinking Black, iv. 59. Good gleaners must be good stoopers even in this harvest-field of black beehive huts.
