coppersmith
see also: Coppersmith
Noun
Coppersmith
Proper noun
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see also: Coppersmith
Noun
coppersmith (plural coppersmiths)
- A person who forges things out of copper.
- 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 2005, p. 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’.
- 1924, EM Forster, A Passage to India, Penguin 2005, p. 104:
- (person) redsmith
- French: dinandier, chaudronnier
- German: Kupferschmied
- Italian: fabbro di rame
- Portuguese: funileiro
- Russian: ме́дник
- Spanish: calderero
Coppersmith
Proper noun
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