What profession was a cooper?

Question:Traditionally, a cooper is someone who makes wooden staved vessels of a conical form, of greater length than breadth, bound together with hoops and possessing flat ends or heads. Examples of a cooper's work include but are not limited to casks, barrels, buckets, tubs, butter churns, hogsheads, firkins, tierces, rundlets, puncheons, pipes, tuns, butts, pins, and breakers.
Sometimes—in more modern times—the profession of the cooper is specific to wineries, where the cooper would look after the aging barrels in which the wine is stored.

Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: Traditionally, a cooper is someone who makes wooden staved vessels of a conical form, of greater length than breadth, bound together with hoops and possessing flat ends or heads. Examples of a cooper's work include but are not limited to casks, barrels, buckets, tubs, butter churns, hogsheads, firkins, tierces, rundlets, puncheons, pipes, tuns, butts, pins, and breakers.
Sometimes—in more modern times—the profession of the cooper is specific to wineries, where the cooper would look after the aging barrels in which the wine is stored.

barrel maker !!!

They made barrels.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cooper_(pro...

A cooper made barrels

Tommy COOPER was a comedy magician

Henry COOPER was a heavy weight boxer.

I think they made barrels for beer

Traditionally, a cooper is someone who makes wooden staved vessels of a conical form, of greater length than breadth, bound together with hoops and possessing flat ends or heads. Examples of a cooper's work include but are not limited to casks, barrels, buckets, tubs, butter churns, hogsheads, firkins, tierces, rundlets, puncheons, pipes, tuns, butts, pins, and breakers. The word is derived from Middle Dutch kūpe, "basket, wood, tub" and may ultimately stem from cupa, the Latin word for vat [1][2]. Everything a cooper produces is referred to collectively as cooperage. "Cask" is a generic term used to describe any piece of cooperage containing a bouge, bilge, or bulge in the middle of the container. A barrel is technically a measure of the size of a cask, so the term "barrel-maker" cannot be used synonymously with "cooper." The facility in which casks are made is also referred to as a cooperage.

this was a person who made barrels, to store things in.

they make/made barrels

Firstly , it's a craft not a profession and a craft came before a trade. Mostly preserved to the whisky distillery business.
If you get a chance to visit an open distillery visitors centre , they should tell you all about the craft.

barrell maker

A barrel maker.

Those wonderful people who make my favourite beer, namely 6X, are Wadworth & Co. of Devizes in Wiltshire.
They employ a cooper to make traditional kegs and barrels.
Have a look at their website.

He made barrels.

Barrel maker

The cooper made wooden barrels. Cooper is an Anglo-Saxon trade-name associated with a person who makes barrels, water butts etc.

Cooper (profession) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A cooper readies, or rounds off, the end of a barrel using a coopers ... the trade
of cooperage has also given the English name Cooper, German names like ...
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Henry Cooper, the English Heavyweight Champion Boxer, was the only man ever to floor Mohamed Ali and put him on the canvas. Not out, but a good effort.

YouTube - Cassius Clay vs Henry Cooper (1963)
Profiled as one of the most influential African Americans of the of the twentieth
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