Advertisement

Advertisement

copper-bottomed

adjective

  1. reliable, esp financially reliable
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


Discover More

Word History and Origins

Origin of copper-bottomed1

from the former practice of coating the bottoms of ships with copper to prevent the timbers rotting
Discover More

Example Sentences

The very kind of case a real copper-bottomed expert would be some use in!

But Toplinskys stomach was cast iron and copper bottomed, and just a slight hesitation flickered across his face.

His copper-bottomed ships came up with and captured six of the enemy, five of which were English prizes.

The wreck proved to be a beautiful copper-bottomed schooner, of about a hundred and eighty tons burthen.

Otherwise we caught nothing, as heretofore, because fish most generally avoid copper-bottomed vessels, such as ours.

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement

Advertisement


Copper Beltcopper-fasten