copper-fastened

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• Copper-fastened

  ·adj Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, ·etc.; as, a copper-fastened ship. ...

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• Fastened

  ·Impf & ·p.p. of <<Fasten>>. ...

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• Copper

  ·noun A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper. II. Copper ·noun the boilers in the gall...

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• Copper

  Derived from the Greek kupros (the island of Cyprus), called "Cyprian brass," occurs only in the Aut...

  Easton's Bible Dictionary

• copper

  A copper coin, especially a British halfpenny or American cent. My friends filled my pockets with c...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• Copper

  Heb. nechosheth, in the Authorized Version always rendered "brass," except in (Ezra 8:27) and Jere 1...

  William Smith's Bible Dictionary

• Chessy copper

  ·- The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite....

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• Copper works

  ·- A place where copper is wrought or manufactured. ...

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• Copper-bottomed

  ·adj Having a bottom made of copper, as a tin boiler or other vessel, or sheathed with copper, as a ...

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• Copper-faced

  ·adj Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type. ...

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• Copper-nickel

  ·noun <<Niccolite>>. ...

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• Copper-nose

  ·noun A red nose. ...

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• Copper Wharf

  South out of Upper Thames Street at No. 12 to the Thames, in Castle Baynard Ward (Horwood, 1799-Lock...

  A Dictionary of London by Henry A Harben.

• copper-head

  n. See under snake. ...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• copper maori

  This spelling has been influenced bythe English word Copper, but it is really a corruptionof a Maori...

  Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris

• bungtown-copper

  The old English half-penny, or copper. So called in various parts of New England. These flowers wou...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.

• copper-clouts

  a kind of spatterdashes worn on the small of the leg. Exm. ...

  A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose

• copper, to

  To cover the ship's bottom with prepared copper. ...

  The Sailor's Word-Book

• copper-bolts

  See copper-fastened. ...

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• copper-bottomed

  See coppered ...

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• copper-nails

  These are chiefly used in boat-building, and for plank nails in the vicinity of the binnacle, as iro...

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• sheet-copper

  Copper rolled out into sheets, for the sheathing of ships' bottoms, &c. ...

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• to sky a copper

  To toss up a cent. Didge said he was like skying a copper--head or tail.--Crockett, Tour. ...

  Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.