The Collaborative International Dictionary
Coppering \Cop"per*ing\, n.
The act of covering with copper.
An envelope or covering of copper.
Copper \Cop"per\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Coppered; p. pr. & vb. n. Coppering.] To cover or coat with copper; to sheathe with sheets of copper; as, to copper a ship.
Wiktionary
n. 1 The act of covering with copper. 2 An envelope or covering of copper. vb. (present participle of copper English)
Usage examples of "coppering".
I'll tell you what, sergeant, if you want to do some coppering you can go and arrest the man in the privy.
He rode with the sun coppering his face and the red wind blowing out of the west.
He rode with the sun coppering his face and the red wind blowing out of the west across the evening land and the small desert birds flew chittering among the dry bracken and horse and rider and horse passed on and their long shadows passed in tandem like the shadow of a single being.
I had never heard them before, what with the refitting, the coppering, the quarter-davits, and they being kept busy in the hold.