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coppered

  • past participle
    of copper.
    copper
    noun
    a malleable, ductile, metallic element having a characteristic reddish-brown color: used in large quantities as an electrical conductor and in the manufacture of alloys, as brass and bronze. Cu; 63.54; 29; 8.92 at 20°C.
  • past tense form
    of copper.
    copper
    noun
    a malleable, ductile, metallic element having a characteristic reddish-brown color: used in large quantities as an electrical conductor and in the manufacture of alloys, as brass and bronze. Cu; 63.54; 29; 8.92 at 20°C.

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Within the last month Alsop coppered the Longworth bet by wagering heavily on Ike to run.

From Time Magazine Archive

Why I don’t believe it is, because I’ve seed the creature stickin’ just the same way to the coppered bottom o’ a ship, and likewise to the sides o’ rocks under the water.

From The Ocean Waifs A Story of Adventure on Land and Sea by Mayne Reid

It is the watchword of the most thickly coppered Copperheads.

From Diary from November 12, 1862, to October 18, 1863 by Adam G. de Gurowski, Count

Substantially built of oak throughout; coppered, and copper-fastened.

From The Cruise of the "Esmeralda" by William Heysham Overend

She was coppered; not a sheet of metal was off, not a rent anywhere visible through the length and breadth of the dingy green surface of it.

From The Honour of the Flag by W. Clark (William Clark) Russell