coppersmith

Meanings

1. 1
   noun

   a craftsperson who makes or repairs objects of copper

   The coppersmith hammered the heated sheet into a shallow bowl.

2. 2
   noun

   a South Asian barbet whose repeated call resembles a smith striking metal

   A coppersmith called steadily from the banyan tree.

A compound of copper + smith, first naming a worker who shapes copper. The bird name coppersmith, now commonly coppersmith barbet, arose because its regular metallic call was likened to the hammering of that craftsperson.

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