Definition of "cooperage" []

• The art or trade of a cooper (noun)
• The price paid to a cooper for work carried out (noun)
• The workplace of a cooper (noun)

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• "There is an historic oak tree alongside the cooperage, which is said to have been used to tie up the Hudson's Bay Company's vessels in the earliest times when wharves were few and far between."
• "When barrels are made, a profession called cooperage, the wood has to be heated over a fire to curve and shape the oak staves."
• "While thin stock, such as cooperage and box stuff is less inclined to give trouble by undue checking than 1-inch and thicker, one will find that any dry kiln will give more uniform results and, at the same time, be more economical in the use of steam, when the humidity and temperature is carried at as high a point as possible without injury to the material to be dried."