(literal, especially of a ship or cookware) Having lower parts made of or covered by copper.
(literal, especially of a ship or cookware) Having lower parts made of or covered by copper.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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Material used to line the bottom of something.
(transitive, historical) To protect the timbers of (a ship) with plates of copper secured with copper nails or bolts.
The act of something that bottoms; the point at which something bottoms (in various senses).
A foundation (literal and figurative senses).
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(British, idiomatic) reliable; secure.
: The copper-bottomed angel at Messrs. Paff’s in Broadway.
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