coop up

Prettily shot in Mendocino, Calif., Denis Hennelly’s glide of a movie coops up old friends in a secluded country house and watches them natter about love and money while the world burns.

"Ah for darkness," he thinks, "not the darkness of a house which coops up a man among furniture, but the darkness where he can be free!"

You're too valuable, though, to coop up in a penitentiary, and I'm going to buy you off.

"It would be a downright shame to coop up the children in a close school-room when they might be enjoying themselves in the bright sunshine," said Mr. Gale.

He dragged the lath coop up on the side.