p-er]
| 1. | a person who makes or repairs casks, barrels, etc. |
| 2. | to make or repair (casks, barrels, etc.). |
| 3. | to furnish or fix (usually fol. by up). |
| 4. | to work as a cooper. |

p-er]
| 1. | Anthony Ashley. Shaftesbury, Anthony Ashley Cooper. |
| 2. | Gary (Frank James Cooper ), 1901–61, U.S. actor. |
| 3. | Hugh Lincoln, 1865–1937, U.S. hydraulic engineer. |
| 4. | James Fen⋅i⋅more [fen-uh-mawr, -mohr] , 1789–1851, U.S. novelist. |
| 5. | Leon N., born 1930, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1972. |
| 6. | Peter, 1791–1883, U.S. inventor, manufacturer, reformer, and philanthropist. |
noun, verb, -oped, -op⋅ing, adverb | 1. | a cooperative store, dwelling, program, etc. |
| 2. | to place in a cooperative arrangement, esp. to convert (an apartment or building) to a cooperative. |
| 3. | go co-op, to convert to a cooperative: Our apartment building is going co-op. |

| Cooper, James Fenimore 1789-1851. American novelist who is best remembered for his novels of frontier life, such as The Last of the Mohicans (1826). |
| Cooper, Peter 1791-1883. American manufacturer, inventor, and philanthropist who built the first American locomotive and founded Cooper Union (1859) in New York City, which offered free courses in the arts and sciences. |