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coppersmith

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cop·per·smith  (kpr-smth)
n.
1. One who works or manufactures objects, especially utensils, in copper.
2. A brightly colored bird (Megalaima haemacephala) of southeast Asia, characterized by its ringing metallic call.

coppersmith [ˈkɒpəˌsmɪθ]
n
1. (Engineering / Metallurgy) a person who works copper or copper alloys
2. (Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Animals) an Asian barbet (a bird), Megalaima haemacephala, the call of which has a ringing metallic note
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.coppersmithcoppersmith - someone who makes articles from copper
artisan, journeyman, artificer, craftsman - a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft
Translations
coppersmith [ˈkɒpəsmɪθ] Ncobrero/a m/f


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The Coppersmith is a bird who makes a noise exactly like the beating of a little hammer on a copper pot; and the reason he is always making it is because he is the town crier to every Indian garden, and tells all the news to everybody who cares to listen.
Pip, dear old chap, life is made of ever so many partings welded together, as I may say, and one man's a blacksmith, and one's a whitesmith, and one's a goldsmith, and one's a coppersmith.
He might have been a coppersmith, and still been musical.
 
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