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Webster 1913 Edition
Copperplate
Cop′per-plateˊ
(kŏp′pẽr-plātˊ)
, Noun.
(a)
A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.
(b)
An impression on paper taken from such a plate.
☞ In printing from a copper- or steel plate the lines are filled with ink, the surface of the plate is wiped clean, the paper laid upon it, and the impression taken by pressing it under the roller of a plate press.
Copperplate press
. See
Plate press
, under Plate
.Definition 2024
copperplate
copperplate
English
Noun
copperplate (plural copperplates)
- A copper plate, either etched or engraved, to make a recessed pattern.
- A print made from such a plate.
- A style of handwriting based on that used on such prints; English round hand.
- 1999. Stardust, Neil Gaiman, page 36 (2001 Perennial paperback edition).
- The village school was a fine school....He learned his reading and had a fair copperplate hand.
- 1999. Stardust, Neil Gaiman, page 36 (2001 Perennial paperback edition).
Verb
copperplate (third-person singular simple present copperplates, present participle copperplating, simple past and past participle copperplated)
- To engrave on and print from a copperplate