Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Copper in sheets or broad thin plates.
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Examples
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The hook, merely a hollow and acute-angled triangle of sheet-copper floating on
CHAPTER XLVII 2010
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Some of the buildings are roofed with sheet-copper, but most of them are tiled.
Unbeaten Tracks in Japan Isabella Lucy 2004
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In one of these pieces is the screwed suction-cap F, and to the other is attached the air-vessel G, made of sheet-copper, and attached to the piece E by a screw.
Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood
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The pieces at each end of the sole are of cast-brass, instead of sheet-copper, with soft-solder joints, which are very apt to give way.
Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood
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In form it is cylindrical, with a hemispherical top, and it is made of sheet-copper, except the two main pieces, which are cast.
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The copper cylinder, C, nearly surrounds P C, and is made from a piece of thin sheet-copper, 6 × 2 in.
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Two drag-ropes, each twenty-five feet long, of three-inch rope, with ten loops to each, are attached, one to each end of the splinter-bar, by means of which the engines are dragged; and to prevent the loops collapsing on the hand, they are partly lined with sheet-copper.
Fire Prevention and Fire Extinction James Braidwood
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Wire brushes are more easily adjusted than tin or sheet-copper ones.
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The hook, merely a hollow and acute-angled triangle of sheet-copper floating on
Chapter 47 1914
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The next largest opening is the food-aperture, which is a large sheet-copper tube, somewhat flattened, thus giving a slightly oval form, closed with a port, such as is used on vessels.
Respiration Calorimeters for Studying the Respiratory Exchange and Energy Transformations of Man Francis Gano Benedict 1913
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