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Chris Perugini, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
When Curtis Whiley’s great-great-great-grandfather, a cooper from Virginia, took refuge in Nova Scotia in 1815, this community was nothing but pine forest.
—Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Feb. 2025
Long-time distillery employees—from distillers to blenders to coopers to warehouse managers—leave their indelible mark on the next generation of employees.
—Chris Perugini, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
The look of the university is an amalgam of Italian, Moorish and American architectural styles, with a blending of materials such as plaster, cooper and wood.
—Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
His father, George, owned 25,000 acres of land and operated large plantations in Virginia, relying on enslaved people to work as carpenters, coopers, sawyers, blacksmiths, tanners, shoemakers, spinners, weavers, knitters, distillers, cooks, laundry maids and field laborers.
—Sue Eisenfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
Master Distiller Dennis Malcolm, OBE, began his career in whisky making working as a cooper at The Glen Grant distillery in 1961, and was actually born on the distillery grounds in 1946.
—Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2023
Whiskey is next with barrels from a local cooper.
—Marc Bona, cleveland, 7 Mar. 2022
In 2016, Julien asked the local cooper, Tonnellerie Artisanale de Champagne, to make some oak barrels from staves that had been left to dry for four years, which is a year longer than for typical high-quality oak barrels (the longer the better some think).
—Per and Britt Karlsson, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
Jillian Dara, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
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Noun
Our coopers over the generations have looked after it.
—Chris Perugini, Forbes, 6 Mar. 2025
When Curtis Whiley’s great-great-great-grandfather, a cooper from Virginia, took refuge in Nova Scotia in 1815, this community was nothing but pine forest.
—Sara Miller Llana, The Christian Science Monitor, 14 Feb. 2025
Long-time distillery employees—from distillers to blenders to coopers to warehouse managers—leave their indelible mark on the next generation of employees.
—Chris Perugini, Forbes, 16 Jan. 2025
The look of the university is an amalgam of Italian, Moorish and American architectural styles, with a blending of materials such as plaster, cooper and wood.
—Emily Zemler, Los Angeles Times, 7 Jan. 2025
His father, George, owned 25,000 acres of land and operated large plantations in Virginia, relying on enslaved people to work as carpenters, coopers, sawyers, blacksmiths, tanners, shoemakers, spinners, weavers, knitters, distillers, cooks, laundry maids and field laborers.
—Sue Eisenfeld, Smithsonian Magazine, 7 Feb. 2024
Master Distiller Dennis Malcolm, OBE, began his career in whisky making working as a cooper at The Glen Grant distillery in 1961, and was actually born on the distillery grounds in 1946.
—Robb Report Studio, Robb Report, 12 Sep. 2023
Whiskey is next with barrels from a local cooper.
—Marc Bona, cleveland, 7 Mar. 2022
In 2016, Julien asked the local cooper, Tonnellerie Artisanale de Champagne, to make some oak barrels from staves that had been left to dry for four years, which is a year longer than for typical high-quality oak barrels (the longer the better some think).
—Per and Britt Karlsson, Forbes, 27 Dec. 2021
Verb
The slopes here are renowned for its thousands of cherry blossom trees, explains DiPasquale, but within them there is a small golden ring of cedar trees which are the only wood used to cooper barrels for cedar aging sake.
—Jillian Dara, Forbes, 29 Sep. 2024
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“Cooper.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/cooper. Accessed 11 May. 2025.
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Cooper
2 of 4biographical name (2)
Coo·per
ˈkü-pər 
ˈku̇-
James Fen*i*more
ˈfen-ə-ˌmȯr
1789–1851 American novelist
1789–1851 American novelist
Cooper
3 of 4biographical name (3)
Leon Neil 1930– American physicist
Cooper
4 of 4biographical name (4)
Peter 1791–1883 American manufacturer and philanthropist
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