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coppersmith

/kop-er-smith/US // ˈkɒp ərˌsmɪθ //UK // (ˈkɒpəˌsmɪθ) //

铜匠,铜器,铜矿石,銅匠

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a person who makes utensils, jewelry, etc., out of copper.
    • : a crimson-breasted barbet, Megalaima haemacephala, of India, southeast Asia, and adjacent islands, characterized by the ringing, metallic sound of its note.

Examples

  • At rare intervals his cousin, the coppersmith, utters a soft wow and thereby reminds us that he is in the land of the living.

  • The coppersmith now and then gives forth his winter note—a subdued wow; this is heard chiefly at the sunset hour.

  • The trade of a coppersmith was not one to interest children greatly in those days.

  • It was something quite different that drew them to the window and door of the coppersmith.

  • When his days work was over the old coppersmith closed his shutter and lighted a candle.