Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A soldering-iron having a copper point.
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Examples
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"The pickings seem to be meager, but every copper-bit we take from them is one we didn't have before."
If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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They saved every copper-bit they could, and they continued to be very wary.
If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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In fact, she would need every copper-bit of the added gratuity to help ease the financial burden those new seedlings were going to place on their resources.
If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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At a copper-bit for every letter and tally, it would take a long time before the house was paid for-and the plan he and Xylina had formulated together depended on being able to buy more slaves and educate them, so that she could supply a cadre of trained scribes to anyone who might need them.
If I Pay Thee Not In Gold Lackey, Mercedes 1993
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Having your edges true, soil them, take a gauge-hook, which may be described as a shave-hook with a gauge attached, and shave it about 1/8 in. each side; now solder it to look like the solder A, Fig. 45, which is done as follows: With some fine solder tack the joint at A D B, Fig. 44, put on some resin, and with a well-heated copper-bit drop some solder roughly on the point from B to
Scientific American Supplement, No. 315, January 14, 1882 Various
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