coppering
- present participle of copper.
Example Sentences
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Clampett & Co. expect to get richer still on royalties, and are coppering their bet by making a round-the-world tour, beating bandits and fattening the market for their book.
From Time Magazine Archive
When both ends are silvered the process of coppering by electro deposit is commenced.
From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard
However, at a temperature of 50° C. the above receipt gives an excellent coppering liquid, which will coat zinc with a fine reguline deposit.
From On Laboratory Arts by Threlfall, Richard
He told husband that he had been "coppering" the market ever since he came to the city and had "taken every trick."
From The Comstock Club by Goodwin, Charles Carroll
The invention of coppering the ships' bottoms, and thus adding to their speed, although generally practiced in England, had been applied in France only to the smaller part of the navy.
From The Eve of the French Revolution by Lowell, Edward J. (Edward Jackson)
