copperas Definition
cop·peras (käp′ər əs)
noun
Etymology: ME & OFr coperose < ML coperosium, prob. < *(aqua) cuprosa, lit., copper (water) < L cupreus, of copper
copperas Usage Examples
Converse of object
produce: The first large-scale plant to produce copperas in England was in Parkstone, Poole, in around 1564.
Modifies a noun
- stone: Copperas stone gathering was a common occupation for many of the local paupers and their children.
- industry: Early interest in the Whitstable copperas industry is recorded in a letter written in 1569 by the Archbishop of Canterbury to Sir William Cecil.
- production: Copperas Point near Dell Key may have been a site for copperas production.
- bed: He excavated the Whitstable copperas beds in the late 1990s.
- manufacture: Copperas manufacture was wholly unlike the traditional, small-scale chemical industries of the medieval and early modern period such as brewing and baking.
Browse dictionary entries near copperas
- ‹ copper sulfate
- ‹ copper pyrites
- ‹ Copper Distributed Data Interface
- ‹ Copper Age
- ‹ copper
- ‹ copolymerization
- ‹ copolymer
- ‹ Copley
- ‹ Copland
- ‹ coplanar
- copperhead ›
- Coppermine ›
- copperplate ›
- coppersmith ›
- coppice ›
- copra ›
- copro- ›
- coprocessor ›
- coprolite ›
- coprology ›

