cooper
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maker of staved vessels such as barrels
Wikidata facts
- Subclass of
- workshop
- Image
- Cooper1.jpg
- Patron saint
- Saint George
- Has use
- cooperage
- Field of occupation
- cooperage
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- male form of label
- Küfer
- different from
- cooperage
- Commons category
- Coopers
- topic's main category
- Category:Coopers
- female form of label
- бочварка
- uses
- wood
- P8168
- Southern Min
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Encyclopedic overview
Cooper readies or rounds off the end of a barrel using a cooper's hand adze Assembly of a barrel, called mise en rose in French A cooper is a craftsman who produces wooden casks, barrels, vats, buckets, tubs, troughs, and other similar containers from timber staves that were usually heated or steamed to make them pliable.
Journeymen coopers also traditionally made wooden implements, such as rakes and wooden-bladed shovels. In addition to wood, other materials, such as iron, were used in the manufacturing process. The trade is the origin of the surname Cooper.
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