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Definition of Coppers

1. copper [v] - See also: copper

Lexicographical Neighbors of Coppers

Literary usage of Coppers

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. A History of the People of the United States: From the Revolution to the by John Bach McMaster (1900)
"But of the Birmingham coppers then passing current, sixty went to the pound. The true Jersey coppers weighed each six pennyweights six grains, ..."

2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1889)
"coppers (popular), mouth; especially a parched one after potations. ... "Hot coppers" is a phrase for a mouth parched by excessive drinking, ..."

3. Soft Soldering, Hard Soldering and Brazing: A Practical Treatise on Tools by James Francis Hobart (1919)
"TINNING SOLDERING coppers. Cleaning coppers before Tinning—Protect Bits from Air —The Tinning Problem—Cleaning a Copper Bit—Filing or Scraping Methods of ..."

4. The Excise Officer's Manual: Being a Practical Introduction to the Business by Joseph Bateman (1852)
"coppers.* A Copper is a vessel used for heating liquids in ... however, coppers bulge out Example.—Where the gauges are to be taken through a tube, ..."

5. Frenzied Finance by Thomas William Lawson (1905)
"CHAPTER VIII THE plan I had so carefully formulated in connection with " coppers " was simple in application yet vast in scope. ..."

6. Frenzied Finance by Thomas William Lawson (1905)
"CHAPTER VIII THE plan I had so carefully formulated in connection with " coppers " was simple in application yet vast in scope. ..."

7. Practical Sheet Metal Work and Demonstrated Patterns: A Comprehensive Treatise by John Henry Teschmacher (1911)
"SOLDERING coppers It will .amply repay master sheet metal workers to pay more attention to soldering coppers than is generally given to these tools. ..."

8. New Cases Selected Chiefly from Decisions of the Courts of the State of New York by Austin Abbott, James MacGregor Smith (1880)
"coppers' Case. the interviews between October 23 and November 3 (see plaintiff's ... coppers' CASE. New York Supreme Court, First District; Special Term, ..."

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