Cooper: alternatives and connections

Having two barrels; -- applied to a gun.

Crude tartar; an acidulous salt from which cream of tartar is prepared. It exists in the juice of grapes, and is deposited from wines…

To put or to pack in a barrel or barrels.

A tool of steel, generally tapering, and of a polygonal form, with from four to eight cutting edges, for smoothing or enlarging holes…

To give a bright brown color to, as to gun barrels, by forming a thin coat of oxide on their surface.

The act or operation of giving a brown color, as to gun barrels, etc.

A large cask or vessel for wine or beer. It contains two hogsheads.

A device consisting of a short rope with flat hooks at each end, for hoisting casks or barrels by the ends of the staves.

The space between the bilges of two casks stowed side by side.

The outer layer of the bark of the cork tree (Quercus Suber), of which stoppers for bottles and casks are made. See Cutose.

A cooper's tool for making the grooves for the heads of casks, etc.; also, the groove itself.

Fagots, boughs, or loose materials of any kind, laid on the bottom of the hold for the cargo to rest upon to prevent injury by water,…

An American machine gun, consisting of a cluster of barrels which, being revolved by a crank, are automatically loaded and fired.

One who gauges; an officer whose business it is to ascertain the contents of casks.

A frame for supporting barrels in a cellar or elsewhere.

Material for the heads of casks, barrels, etc.

A pliant strip of wood or metal bent in a circular form, and united at the ends, for holding together the staves of casks, tubs, etc.

One who hoops casks or tubs; a cooper.