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ˈcopper-ˌplate, ˈcopperplate
1. gen. (Better written as two words.) A plate of copper; also collect.
1665Pepys Diary (1879) III. 306 Silk in bales and boxes of copper-plate. 1669Worlidge Syst. Agric. xii. §6 (1681) 246 Then take a Copper-plate, about the size of an ordinary Trencher-plate. 1756–7tr. Keysler's Trav. (1760) IV. 172 The letters are of gold, and set in a copper-plate. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) III. 379 They are composed of thin lacquered copper-plates. 1881Raymond Mining Gloss., Copper-plates, the plates of amalgamated copper over which the auriferous ore is allowed to flow..and upon which the gold is caught as amalgam.
2. spec. A polished plate of copper on which a design is engraved or etched for printing.
1668Excellency Pen & Pencil 55 Copper plates ready polished do often come from Holland. 1685Petty Last Will p. vii, I have..the copper-plates for the maps of Ireland. 1730Southall Bugs Pref., He not only forwarded the Impression, but directed and order'd the Copperplate. 1816J. Smith Panorama Sc. & Art II. 770 The copper⁓plate is prepared, and the ground laid upon it in the same manner as for etching. 832Babbage Econ. Manuf. x. 66 Impressions from the same block, or the same copper-plate.
3. A print or impression from such a plate.
1663Gerbier Counsel G iij b, Untill a large worke (with Copper Plates) shall have had time to be put forth. 1777Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) III. 174 Copper-plates of their paintings..published by various authors. 1840Thackeray George Cruikshank (1869) 297 A couple of numbers, containing about a score of copperplates.
4. collect. Copperplate engraving or printing. Used of a style of careful handwriting.
1817Keatinge Trav. II. 82 What ideas copper-plate supplies are yet more inadequate. 1824M. Wilmot Let. 1 Jan. (1935) 204 They will all write as well at 13 or 14 as if they wrote copper plate now. 1826Miss Mitford Village Ser. ii. (1863) 294 The Th was there as legible as copper⁓plate. 1911R. Brooke Let. July (1968) 312, I have stooped to an even more round-hand copper-plate than ever. 1966G. Heyer Black Sheep ix. 132 She had then devoted the better part of the afternoon to the composition of a formal invitation, written in her beautiful copper-plate.
5. attrib. (Better as one word.)
1750J. Steuart Letter-Bk. (1915) 465 A coper plate coppie book for asisting my boys in ther writing. 1824J. Johnson Typogr. I. 525 The earliest specimens of copper-plate printing. 1858Simmonds Dict. Trade, Copper⁓plate Maker, a workman who shapes, smooths, and prepares metal plates for engraving. Ibid., Copper-plate Press, a roller press for striking off impressions on paper from a metal plate. 1878Thurston Hist. Steam-Engine 33 A copperplate engraving. 1954N. D. Young Handwriting in Eng. & Wales i. 9 England,..producing in time the copper-plate writing that was imitated in all the counting-houses of Europe. |