See also: Coppersmith

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copper +‎ smith

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coppersmith (plural coppersmiths)

  1. A person who forges things out of copper.
    • 1961 March, C.P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, page 162:
      Eastleigh Locomotive Works: Layout and functions of shops [...] Coppersmiths: Preparation of boiler tubes and copper pipework.
  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.
    • 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin, published 2005, page 104:
      More noises came from a dusty tree, where brown birds creaked and floundered about looking for insects; another bird, the invisible coppersmith, had started his ‘ponk ponk’.

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