coppersmith

[ kop-er-smith ]

noun

1. a person who makes utensils, jewelry, etc., out of copper.
2. a crimson-breasted barbet, Megalaima haemacephala, of India, southeast Asia, and adjacent islands, characterized by the ringing, metallic sound of its note.

coppersmith

/ ˈkɒpəˌsmɪθ /

noun

1. a person who works copper or copper alloys
2. an Asian barbet (a bird), Megalaima haemacephala, the call of which has a ringing metallic note

Word History and Origins

Origin of coppersmith¹

1300–50; Middle English copresmythe. See copper ¹, smith

Example Sentences

At rare intervals his cousin, the coppersmith, utters a soft wow and thereby reminds us that he is in the land of the living.

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The coppersmith now and then gives forth his winter note—a subdued wow; this is heard chiefly at the sunset hour.

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The trade of a coppersmith was not one to interest children greatly in those days.

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It was something quite different that drew them to the window and door of the coppersmith.

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When his days work was over the old coppersmith closed his shutter and lighted a candle.

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