copperer

English

Etymology

copper +‎ -er

Noun

copperer (plural copperers)

  1. One who applies copper coatings.
    • 1948, Norman Wymer, A Breath of England (book 1, page 276)
      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.
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