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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.
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Noun1.coppersmithcoppersmith - someone who makes articles from copper
artisan, journeyman, artificer, craftsman - a skilled worker who practices some trade or handicraft
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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.
The Jungle Book by Kipling, Rudyard View in context
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.
Great Expectations by Dickens, Charles View in context
He might have been a coppersmith, and still been musical.
Barnaby Rudge - A Tale Of The Riots Of 'Eighty by Dickens, Charles View in context
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