Cooping

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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.
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           The Trojans cooped within their walls so long.
                                                    --Dryden.
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           The contempt of all other knowledge . . . coops the
           understanding up within narrow bounds.   --Locke.
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     2. To work upon in the manner of a cooper. [Obs.] "Shaken
        tubs . . . be new cooped." --Holland.
  
     Syn: To crowd; confine; imprison.
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