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Definition of Copper-bottom
1. Verb. Provide with a copper bottom. "Copper-bottom a frying pan"
Lexicographical Neighbors of Copper-bottom
Literary usage of Copper-bottom
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Mineral Industry (1899)
"The converter is then turned upright and blown partially, tilted to pour off
slag, turned upright again and blown to produce the desired copper bottom, ..."
2. Metallurgy: The Art of Extracting Metals from Their Ores by John Percy (1880)
"The copper bottom is turned up at the edges, as shown in section in fig. 95, a:
it consists of a single casting, and varies from 0-03 to 0-08 metre in ..."
3. The Mechanics' Magazine, Museum, Register, Journal, and Gazette (1852)
"D is the ore-receiver, the copper bottom of which is either finely pierced or
woven, as shown in fig. 3. Fig. 5 is the scraper used for removing the refuse. ..."
4. Iron edited by Sholto Percy, Perry Fairfax Nursey (1852)
"D is the ore-receiver, the copper bottom of which is either finely pierced or
woven, as shown in fig. 3. Fig. 5 is the scraper used for removing the refuse. ..."
5. Porcupine's Works: Containing Various Writings and Selections, Exhibiting a by William Cobbett (1801)
"... and ab u fes of one George copper-bottom, a quondam relation, who entertained
an old ... between the faid copper-bottom and the laid Naked-bottom, ..."
6. A Treatise on the Law of Marine Insurance and General Average by Theophilus Parsons (1868)
"Sea perils insured against made it necessary to take off 'her copper bottom, and,
to make her sea-worthy, to put on what is called " a brimstone bottom. ..."
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