coppersmith
nounEtymology From copper + smith.
1
A person who forges things out of copper.
- Eastleigh Locomotive Works: Layout and functions of shops [...] Coppersmiths: Preparation of boiler tubes and copper pipework.1961 March, C.P. Boocock, “The organisation of Eastleigh Locomotive Works”, in Trains Illustrated, page 162:
2
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.
- 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, published 2005, page 104:
- Synonyms
- redsmith
- Derived terms
- coppersmithing
- Hypernyms
- smith, metalsmith