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coppersmith en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From copper + smith.

Meanings

1. A person who forges things out of copper.
   • Eastleigh Locomotive Works: Layout and functions of shops [...] Coppersmiths: Preparation of boiler tubes and copper pipework. 1961 March, C.P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, page 162:
2. A South Asian barbet, Psilopogon haemacephala, with crimson forehead and throat, best known for its metronomic call that has been likened to a coppersmith striking metal with a hammer.
   • More noises came from a dusty tree, where brown birds creaked and floundered about looking for insects; another bird, the invisible coppersmith, had started his ‘ponk ponk’. 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 104:

Forms

Deriveds

coppersmithing

Hypernyms

smith · metalsmith

Synonyms

redsmith

Translations (55)

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