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vb. (alternative form of copperfasten English)
Usage examples of "copper-fasten".
Originally a teakbuilt, gentleman's yacht, brass-fitted, copper-fastened, angleironed, sheathed in man-of-war copper and with a fin-keel of bronze, she had been sold into the Solomon Islands' trade for the purpose of blackbirding or nigger-running.
Over the next two years, the 376-ton, copper-fastened whaleship Charles Carroll took shape under Chase's experienced eye, and with an investment of $625 he was given a 1/32 owners' share in the vessel.
They watched the young woman attach herself to the arm of Mr Joyce of the Kite transport, and as they walked along, Pullings, more coherent now that he was relieved of a sense of guilt--for very strangely his officers looked upon Jack Aubrey as a moral figure, in spite of all proofs to the contrary--expatiated on the merits of his prize, a privateer schooner, copper-fastened, wonderfully well-found.