Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Fastened with copper instead of iron or steel bolts, as the planking of a ship.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective Fastened with copper bolts, as the planks of ships, etc..
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb Simple past tense and past participle of
copper-fasten .
Etymologies
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Examples
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I built her plank by plank, and copper-fastened her, selected her masts and every timber of her, and personally signed on her full ship's complement fore-and-aft, and outfitted her amongst the Jews, and sailed with her to the South Seas and the treasure buried a fathom under the sand.
CHAPTER XIII 2010
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She is built of oak, double-planked, and copper-fastened; and all the interior fittings were done to suit me.
Modeste Mignon 2007
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Now the Calabar was a spanking craft, copper-fastened fore and aft,
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And the ties between our two countries, Mr. President, are now, of course, copper-fastened by an extremely vibrant economic relationship.
Remarks By The President At Shamrock Presentation ITY National Archives 1998
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I remember Potts telling me that she was built of mahogany and copper-fastened.
Cord and Creese James De Mille
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I say this as one friend to another and not because I have to wear copper-fastened pajamas.
The Silly Syclopedia Noah [pseud.] Lott
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I don't mind the copper-fastened pajamas so much, but to wear asphalt neckties and barb-wire suspenders is something which aggravates the spirit.
The Silly Syclopedia Noah [pseud.] Lott
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Our own faithful, copper-fastened distorter of facial beauty set down in Mr. Furniss's black art what he had seen and did know.
The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2) Harry Furniss
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Originally a teak - built, gentleman's yacht, brass-fitted, copper-fastened, angle - ironed, sheathed in man-of-war copper and with a fin-keel of bronze, she had been sold into the Solomon Islands 'trade for the purpose of blackbirding or nigger-running.
Chapter 2 1917
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I built her plank by plank, and copper-fastened her, selected her masts and every timber of her, and personally signed on her full ship's complement fore-and-aft, and outfitted her amongst the Jews, and sailed with her to the South Seas and the treasure buried a fathom under the sand.
Chapter 13 1917
sionnach commented on the word copper-fastened
The Word Detective discusses the origin and use of this phrase at this link:
copper-fastened etymology
I had never thought of this word as being particularly Irish, but it is interesting that three of the four non-nautical uses that show up in the first 30 or so google hits are by Irish people.
October 29, 2007