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The person who made your barrel watertight before 'quality control' was a department.
means A craftsman who makes or repairs wooden casks and barrels by fitting and binding shaped staves together.
from From Middle English couper, borrowed from Middle Dutch/Middle Low German kūper, itself built on kūpe meaning 'cask' or 'tub' — a word going back to Latin cupa, 'tub, vat' (the same root that gives us 'cup'). The surname Cooper comes straight from the trade, one of many English last names (Smith, Baker, Mason) that simply announce what your ancestors made for a living.
- origin
- Latin cupa, meaning cask
- surname proof
- one of the most common English occupational surnames
- skill level
- took seven years to master barrel-making
- still alive
- whiskey and wine barrels still hand-coopered today