cooped
simple past tense and past participle of coop
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Source: Wiktionary
Coop, n. Etym: [Cf. AS. cypa a measure, D. kuip tub, Icel. kupa bowl, G. kufe coop tub; all fr. L. cupa vat, tub, LL. cupa, copa, cup. See Cup, and cf. Keeve.]
1. A barrel or cask for liquor. [Obs.] Johnson.
2. An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.
3. A cart made close with boarde; a tumbrel. [Scotch]
Coop, v. t. [imp. & p.p. Cooped; p.pr. & vb.n. Cooping.]
Definition: To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in. The Trojans coopet within their walls so long. Dryden. The contempt of all other knowledge . . . coops the understanding up within narrow bounds. Locke.
2. To work upon in the manner of a cooper. [Obs.] "Shaken tubs . . . be new cooped." Holland.
Syn.
– To crowd; confine; imprison.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
5 May 2025
(adjective) not developed, improved, exploited or used; “vast unexploited (or undeveloped) natural resources”; “taxes on undeveloped lots are low”
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
