Loading...
4 collocations for coopering
Completed thatching the store; continued landing stores from the schooner; coopering the flour-barrels.
Men employed coopering the flour-casks, fencing the garden, completing the store, and general camp duties.
I'm sure if I had to cooper up all the things on the farm as you do, I should loathe the very sight of tools.
In stormy weather, when none could stir abroad, they turned or coopered the wooden vessels; for tin cups were as rare as iron forks, and the "noggin" was either hollowed out of the knot of a tree, or else made with small staves and hoops.