资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Coop \Coop\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Cooped}; p. pr. & vb. n.
   {Cooping}.]
   To confine in a coop; hence, to shut up or confine in a
   narrow compass; to cramp; -- usually followed by up,
   sometimes by in.

         The Trojans cooped within their walls so long.
                                                  --Dryden.

         The contempt of all other knowledge . . . coops the
         understanding up within narrow bounds.   --Locke.

   2. To work upon in the manner of a cooper. [Obs.] ``Shaken
      tubs . . . be new cooped.'' --Holland.

   Syn: To crowd; confine; imprison.