recopperv.
/ˌriːˈkɒpə/, U.S. /ˌriˈkɑpər/ transitive. To cover or sheathe (a ship, roof, etc.) again with copper.
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society > travel > travel by water > vessel, ship, or boat > shipbuilding and repairing > build a ship [verb (transitive)] > fit out or equip > sheath with copper
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1825 Mechanics' Mag. 8 Jan. 253/2 She is, therefore, returned to England to be docked and recoppered.
1851 Amer. Whig Rev. Dec. 531 A full-rigged church, with nave and choir and chancel, buttress, spire and—flag-staff, hauled out on the floating-dock to have a new corner-stone spiked into her, her foundations recoppered, and her under-pinning caulked and pitched.
1857 Mercantile Marine Mag. (1858) 5 12 The ship has to be hove down and re-coppered.
1922 Fort Wayne (Indiana) Jrnl.-Gaz. 19 Feb. (Automobile Show Suppl.) 15/1 (advt.) We replate, renickel, enamel, recopper, resilver, refinish anything, if it is metal.
1955 E. H. Visiak Mirror of Conrad 157 She was recaulked, recoppered, returned to the hulk, and her cargo reshipped.
1997 Church Times 10 Oct. 1/1 The exterior of the dome, green with oxide for 90 years, has been fully re-coppered.
Derivatives
reˈcoppering n.
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1845 Times 18 Oct. 7/4 The work of recaulking and recoppering is going on as rapidly as hands can perform it.
1897 Missionary Herald (Boston) June 219 These repairs, including the recoppering of the vessel.
1964 Jrnl. Polit. Econ. 72 38 The costs associated with capital..are routine maintenance..and periodic recoppering of the hull.
2000 Jrnl. Early Republic 20 236 Old copper sheathing stripped from government ships should be reserved for recoppering.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2009; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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