1. An artificer in copper; one who manufactures copper utensils.
1327. in Riley, Mem. Lond. (1868), 160. Robert de Suttone, and Walter le Keu, copresmythes.
c. 1515. Cocke Lorell’s B. (Percy Soc.), 9. Roke makers, coper smythes, and lorymers.
1526–34. Tindale, 2 Tim. iv. 14. Alexander the coppersmyth did me moche evyll.
1712. Lond. Gaz., No. 5006/4. Fit for any Brasier or Copper Smith’s use.
1878. Gladstone, Prim. Homer, 138. The copper-smith is a pretty familiar personage.
2. The popular name in India of the Crimson-breasted Barbet (Xantholæma Indica). [So Urdū tambayat.]
1862. Jerdon, Birds of India (1877), I. 316. It has a remarkably loud note which sounds like took-took-took.… This sound and the motion of its head, accompanying it, have given origin to the name of coppersmith.
1879. E. Arnold, Lt. Asia, 20. In the mango-sprays The sun-birds flashed; alone at his green forge Toiled the loud Coppersmith.
