A workshop or establishment where barrels and wooden casks are made or repaired.
From 'cooper' + '-y' (a suffix indicating a place, workshop, or business, as in 'bakery,' 'brewery,' 'laundry'). This '-y' suffix creates place nouns from agent nouns.
A coopery was both a workshop and often a small factory—coopers organized their space to handle logs, tools, metal bands, and finished barrels. The layout of a medieval coopery reveals sophisticated production planning for pre-industrial work.
Complete word intelligence in one call. Free tier — 50 lookups/day.