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Copper v. World English Historical Dictionary Dictionary Biographies Literary Criticism Welcome Terms of Service ⧏ Previous Next ⧐ Contents Slice Contents Key Bibliographic Record Murray’s New English Dictionary. 1893, rev. 2025. Copper v. [f. COPPER sb.1]

1   1.  trans. To cover with copper; to sheathe the bottom and sides of a ship with copper.

2 1530.  Palsgr., 498/2. I copper.

3 1781.  Westm. Mag., IX. 325. A very large frigate … the only one the Spaniards have coppered.

4 1809.  Med. Jrnl., XXI. 174. Coppering her bottom.

5 1862.  Macm. Mag., June, 167. A bronze statue and a cast-iron one coppered by electricity.

6   2.  In the game of faro: To lay a copper coin or other token upon (a card) to indicate that the player bets against that card; to bet against. (U.S.)

7 1892.  Correspt. in Cincinnati. If he bet the card to lose, he put an old-fashioned copper cent on the top of the silver or gold; in other words he ‘coppered’ it. To ‘copper’ a thing, therefore, is to bet or estimate that it will lose: you ‘copper’ a horse in a race.

8   Hence Coppering vbl. sb. and ppl. a.; also as sb. the copper sheathing of a ship’s bottom.

9 c. 1865.  G. Gore, in Circ. Sc., I. 213/1. Each room, whether for coppering, silvering, or gilding. Ibid., 233/1. They are then immersed in the … coppering liquid, and a thin film of copper is thrown down.

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