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Nickel
·noun A small coin made of or containing nickel; ·esp., a five-cent piece.
II. Nickel ·noun A brigh...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Copper
·noun A vessel, especially a large boiler, made of copper.
II. Copper ·noun the boilers in the gall...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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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
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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.
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Copper
Heb. nechosheth, in the Authorized Version always rendered "brass," except in (Ezra 8:27) and Jere 1...
William Smith's Bible Dictionary
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Nickel steel
·add. ·- A kind of cast steel containing nickel, which greatly increases its strength. It is used fo...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Chessy copper
·- The mineral azurite, found in fine crystallization at Chessy, near Lyons; called also chessylite....
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Copper works
·- A place where copper is wrought or manufactured.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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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 ...
Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Copper-faced
·adj Faced or covered with copper; as, copper-faced type.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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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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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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Copper-nose
·noun A red nose.
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Webster's Dictionary of the English Language
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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.
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copper-head
n.
See under snake.
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Dictionary of Australasian Words Phrases and Usages by Edward E. Morris
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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
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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.
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copper-clouts
a kind of spatterdashes worn on the small of the leg. Exm.
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A glossary of provincial and local words used in England by Francis Grose
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copper, to
To cover the ship's bottom with prepared copper.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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copper-bolts
See copper-fastened.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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copper-bottomed
See coppered
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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copper-fastened
The bolts and other metal work in the bottom of ships, made of copper instead of iron, so that the v...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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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...
The Sailor's Word-Book
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sheet-copper
Copper rolled out into sheets, for the sheathing of ships' bottoms, &c.
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The Sailor's Word-Book
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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.
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Dictionary of American Words And Phrases by John Russell Bartlett.