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Big Think, 9 Oct. 2025
The finds included ceramic pieces, glass bottles and clay tobacco pipes, plus a cooper's adze, barrel heads and staves.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Some suggest that burning casks to remove impurities was a common practice among coopers.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
Yet the coming exit of the centuries-old cooper and zinc round coin, once stamped with a woman symbolizing liberty and now bearing President Abraham Lincoln's solemn profile, may have a more outsized impact beyond the loose change drawer, particularly for those living near the economic margins.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
Our coopers over the generations have looked after it.
—Chris Perugini, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
When Curtis Whiley’s great-great-great-grandfather, a cooper from Virginia, took refuge in Nova Scotia in 1815, this community was nothing but pine forest.
—Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Feb. 2025
An expert cooper can hammer together more than 30 staves in as little as 90 seconds, Heaven Hill Distillery stated in an article about the process of making barrels.
—Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 17 Jan. 2025
Jillian Dara, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
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Noun
In Modena, a cooper knocks on oak to hear if the barrel will sing.
—Big Think, 9 Oct. 2025
The finds included ceramic pieces, glass bottles and clay tobacco pipes, plus a cooper's adze, barrel heads and staves.
—Andrea Margolis, FOXNews.com, 1 Sep. 2025
Some suggest that burning casks to remove impurities was a common practice among coopers.
—Joseph V Micallef, Forbes.com, 26 June 2025
Yet the coming exit of the centuries-old cooper and zinc round coin, once stamped with a woman symbolizing liberty and now bearing President Abraham Lincoln's solemn profile, may have a more outsized impact beyond the loose change drawer, particularly for those living near the economic margins.
—Mandy Taheri, MSNBC Newsweek, 29 May 2025
Our coopers over the generations have looked after it.
—Chris Perugini, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
When Curtis Whiley’s great-great-great-grandfather, a cooper from Virginia, took refuge in Nova Scotia in 1815, this community was nothing but pine forest.
—Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Feb. 2025
An expert cooper can hammer together more than 30 staves in as little as 90 seconds, Heaven Hill Distillery stated in an article about the process of making barrels.
—Leo Bertucci, Louisville Courier Journal, 17 Jan. 2025
Verb
The slopes here are renowned for its thousands of cherry blossom trees, explains DiPasquale, but within them there is a small golden ring of cedar trees which are the only wood used to cooper barrels for cedar aging sake.
—Jillian Dara, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
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“Cooper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cooper. Accessed 3 Jan. 2026.
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