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copper
  1. (uncountable) a reddish-brown, malleable, ductile metallic element with high electrical and thermal conductivity, symbol Cu, and atomic number 29.
  2. (countable) Something made of copper.
  3. The reddish-brown colour/color of copper.
  4. (countable) A copper coin.
  5. (Britain, archaic) A large pot, often used for heating water or washing clothes over a fire. In Australasia at least, it could also be a fixed installation made of copper, with a fire underneath and its own chimney. Generally made redundant by the advent of the washing machine.
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    1. “A few days ago, a copper had come to our door to explain the strange incident with Nick's dad.”
coppersmith
  1. A person who forges things out of copper.
  2. A South Asian barbet, Psilopogon haemacephala, 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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    1. “My father was a fisherman sailing out of Milford Haven and my late husband, Royston, was a coppersmith in Milford Docks.”
      “Despite the difficulties, however, the coppersmith has retained the famous Gabrovo sense of humour.”
      “The production of true brandy started in South Australia, where a local coppersmith produced his own type of pot still.”
copperhead
  1. Any of various types of snakes having a copper-colored head.
    1. Agkistrodon contortrix, a venomous pit viper species found in parts of North America.
    2. Austrelaps, or Australian copperhead, a genus of venomous elapids found in southern Australia and Tasmania.
    3. Elaphe radiata, the copperhead rat snake, a non-venomous species found in southern Asia.
    4. Deinagkistrodon acutus, the Chinese copperhead, a venomous pit viper species found in Southeast Asia
  2. (pejorative) Someone with ginger hair.
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    1. “Ooze into the shadows and try not to sit on a copperhead snake or a bed of fire ants.”
      “It got to where I'd be stripping tobacco suckers from the plants, and I'd be able to sense a lurking copperhead.”
      “We said we did not and he informed us the dead snake was a decidedly poisonous copperhead, a creature apparently known to travel in pairs.”
coppering
  1. The act of covering with copper.
  2. An envelope or covering of copper.
coppersmithing
  1. The work of a coppersmith; the forging of copper.
copperiness
  1. The quality of being coppery, or resembling copper.
copperworking
  1. The manufacture of items from copper.
coppersmithy
  1. The smithy of a coppersmith.
copperworks
  1. A place where copper is manufactured and/or shaped.
copperworker
  1. A person employed to manufacture and shape copper.
copper
copperware
  1. Articles made from copper.
copperwork
  1. Works made from copper.
  2. Examples:
    1. “The coastal people, most of whom are Buginese, carry on weaving and copperwork but are chiefly trading sailors and fishermen.”
      “Traditional crafts include embroidery, pottery and copperwork.”
      “This will show you how alive our culture is: the abundance of pottery, iron or copperwork, not to mention our local produce and its delicious cuisine.”
copperworkers
  1. plural of copperworker
coppersmithies
  1. plural of coppersmithy
coppersmiths
copperheads
  1. plural of copperhead
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  3. Examples:
    1. “I heard you used to grab rattlesnakes and copperheads by the tail and snap them like a whip to break their necks.”
      “This is the only product that can neutralize toxins from rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, and copperheads.”
      “Dogs bitten by any of Texas' dangerous snakes, including rattlesnakes, cottonmouths, copperheads and coral snakes, often suffer unnecessarily.”
copperings
  1. plural of coppering
coppers
  1. plural of copper
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  3. Examples:
    1. “They can be readily brazed, and many coppers and copper alloys can be welded by various gas, arc and resistance methods.”
      “Now and then, however, he managed to scrape together some coppers surreptitiously by holding a gentleman's horse or running on an errand.”
      “Due to coppers excellent heat transferral properties it could be assumed that an all copper heatsink would perform quite well.”
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