copperer
nounEtymology From copper + -er.
1
One who applies copper coatings.
- No longer is salt recovered from the Isle of Thanet, or gunpowder prepared in almost every other sizeable village; the iron-foundries are as dead as those of Sussex, and the copperers and calico bleachers have long since departed.1948, Norman Wymer, A Breath of England (book 1, page 276)