cooping

To keep in a coop.

To shut up or confine in a narrow space; to cramp.

To unlawfully confine one or more voters to prevent them from casting their ballots in an election.

(law enforcement) Of a police officer: to sleep or relax while on duty.

To make or repair barrels, casks and other wooden vessels; to work upon in the manner of a cooper.

The practice of forcing unwilling participants to vote, often several times over, for a particular candidate in an election.