English Dictionary

coop

IPA（発音記号）

/kuːp/

名詞

イングランド スコットランド英語 地域限定

(regional, England, Scotland) A cart with sides and ends made from boards, enabling it to carry manure, etc. / (regional, England, Scotland) A cart which opens at the back to release its load; a tumbril.

日本語の意味

木製の板でできた側面と端部を持ち、糞などの荷物を運搬するために用いられる荷車。 / 荷台の後部が開放式になっており、荷物を容易に放出できる荷車。

After the rain, the farmer hitched the horses to the coop and hauled the wet manure to the field.

雨上がり、農夫は馬を板張りの荷車につなぎ、湿った堆肥を畑へ運んだ。

意味（1）

(regional, England, Scotland) A cart with sides and ends made from boards, enabling it to carry manure, etc.

Fan Coops an' Carts were unco rare, / An' Creels, an' Corrocks boot to ſair. […]

意味（2）

(regional, England, Scotland) A cart which opens at the back to release its load; a tumbril.

COOP, […] A cart, the box of which moves upon its shafts by hinges, by which means it may be emptied of its load without unyoking the horse, S. The body of the cowp-cart is attached to the shafts by a peculiar kind of hinges, which allow of elevating it before, either partially or entirely, to facilitate the discharge of its load backwards, either by degrees into small heaps, or at once, without the trouble of unyoking the shaft horse. Agr. Surv. of Berw. p. 167. As used in the latter sense, the term is obviously from the v. to Coup, to overturn.]

coops （ plural ）