Coop

(n.) A barrel or cask for liquor.

(n.) An inclosure for keeping small animals; a pen; especially, a grated box for confining poultry.

(n.) A cart made close with boards; a tumbrel.

(v. t.) To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up, sometimes by in.

(v. t.) To work upon in the manner of a cooper.

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• Come to my poor place, missus,' said Stephen, 'and tak a coop o' tea. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 艰难时事.
• The blank, unornamented coop had nothing about it of that oriental voluptuousness one reads of so much. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Will Miss Amy ride in her coop (coupe), and use all them lovely silver dishes that's stored away over yander? 路易莎·梅·奥尔科特. 小妇人.
• To reproduce a Jerusalem street, it would only be necessary to up-end a chicken-coop and hang it before each window in an alley of American houses. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.
• Or if we were all cooped up here waiting for it. 欧内斯特·海明威. 丧钟为谁而鸣.
• That's the whole collection, said the old man, all cooped up together, by my noble and learned brother. 查尔斯·狄更斯. 荒凉山庄.
• Why have I never heard until the day before yesterday of your suffering yourself to be cooped up in jail? 查尔斯·狄更斯. 匹克威克外传.
• We can imagine the wretchedness of a curious mind, tormented by the craving for travel and knowledge, cooped up in these islands of empty romance. 赫伯特·乔治·威尔斯. 世界史纲.
• The shops here are mere coops, mere boxes, bath-rooms, closets--any thing you please to call them--on the first floor. 马克·吐温. 傻子出国记.

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