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Coppersmith

Coppersmith \Cop"per*smith`\ (-sm[i^]th`), n. One whose occupation is to manufacture copper utensils; a worker in copper.

Wiktionary
coppersmith

n. 1 A person who forges things out of copper. 2 ''Megalaima haemacephala'', a South Asian bird with crimson forehead and throat, best known for its metronomic call that has been likened to a coppersmith striking metal with a hammer.

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coppersmith

n. someone who makes articles from copper

Wikipedia
Coppersmith

A coppersmith, also known as a redsmith, is a person who makes artifacts from copper. The term redsmith comes from the colour of copper.

Coppersmith (surname)

Coppersmith is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:

  • Don Coppersmith, cryptographer and mathematician
  • Louis Coppersmith (1928–1989), American politician
  • Sam Coppersmith, former United States Congressman

Category:English-language surnames

Coppersmith (disambiguation)

Coppersmith may refer to:

  • Coppersmith, a person who works with copper and brass
  • Coppersmith (surname)
  • Coppersmith Hills, mountain range in Lassen County, California, United States
  • Coppersmith barbet (Megalaima haemacephala), bird found in India, Sri Lanka, southeast Asia and Indonesia

Usage examples of "coppersmith".

Philadelphia that July 4 of 1788, in which many hundreds of tradesmen marched, grouped by guilds: shipbuilders, rope-makers, instrument-makers, blacksmiths, tin-plate workers, cabinetmakers, printers, bookbinders, coppersmiths, gunsmiths, saddlers, and stonecutters, some fifty different groups carrying banners and the tools of their trade.

Turkish coppersmith in the quarter and bought first a pan, another time a handbasin and a coffeepot, and again bowls, and coffee cups.

Jack put his coppersmiths to work letting a hole into the side of the vessel, and van Hoek used his caulking acumen to seal the pane into place so that not too much water would leak out around the edges.

Tired of frequenting fairs and roaming the country, the Auvergnat settled at Limoges, where he married, in 1797, the daughter of a coppersmith, a widower, named Champagnac.

The only person Glomer knew, a serving lass named Nonna, came mincing down to visit her family, the potters who lived across and down by the coppersmiths, about twice a month.

But Karsus had coppersmiths and armorers fashion an arrowhead of copper sheets that measured three feet across.

But as striking as any sign of the country's burgeoning energy and productivity was the “Grand Federal Procession” held in Philadelphia that July 4 of 1788, in which many hundreds of tradesmen marched, grouped by guilds: shipbuilders, rope-makers, instrument-makers, blacksmiths, tin-plate workers, cabinetmakers, printers, bookbinders, coppersmiths, gunsmiths, saddlers, and stonecutters, some fifty different groups carrying banners and the tools of their trade.

But as striking as any sign of the country's burgeoning energy and productivity was the "Grand Federal Procession" held in Philadelphia that July 4 of 1788, in which many hundreds of tradesmen marched, grouped by guilds: shipbuilders, rope-makers, instrument-makers, blacksmiths, tin-plate workers, cabinetmakers, printers, bookbinders, coppersmiths, gunsmiths, saddlers, and stonecutters, some fifty different groups carrying banners and the tools of their trade.

It sheltered some twenty workshops of leather tanners, coppersmiths, carpenters, wool dyers, flax weavers, scissors makers preparing their products for the shops in the open markets and on the popular streets of the Corso and Pellicceria.

It grew louder as he walked toward it and then began to differentiate into individual voices: peddlars crying their wares, shoppers bargaining with shopkeepers, quarrelers shouting at each other, musicians competing for gratuities, beggars soliciting alms, blacksmiths, tinsmiths, coppersmiths hammering out their wares….

The man selected to command this escort is the vilest and most brutal reprobate in the army, Dutertre, a coppersmith foreman before the Revolution, next an officer and sentenced to be put in irons for stealing in the La Vendée war, and such a natural robber that he again robs his men of their pay on the road.