copperplate

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: cop=per=plate

CIDE DICTIONARY

copperplate, n. 

 A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.  [1913 Webster]
" 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."  [1913 Webster]

Copperplate press. See Plate press, under Plate.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

copperplate, n. & adj.
--n.
1 a a polished copper plate for engraving or etching. b a print made from this.
2 an ornate style of handwriting resembling that orig. used in engravings.
--adj. of or in copperplate writing.

ROGET THESAURUS

copperplate

Engraving

N engraving, chalcography, line engraving, mezzotint engraving, stipple engraving, chalk engraving, dry point, bur, etching, aquatinta, chiseling, plate engraving, copperplate engraving, steel engraving, wood engraving, xylography, lignography, glyptography, cerography, lithography, chromolithography, photolithography, zincography, glyphography, xylograph, lignograph, glyptograph, cerograph, lithograph, chromolithograph, photolithograph, zincograph, glyphograph, holograph, impression, print, engraving, plate, steelplate, copperplate, etching, mezzotint, aquatint, lithotint, cut, woodcut, stereotype, graphotype, autotype, heliotype, graver, burin, etching point, style, plate, stone, wood block, negative, die, punch, stamp, printing, plate printing, copperplate printing, anastatic printing, color printing, lithographic printing, type printing, three-color process, illustration, illumination, half tone, photogravure, vignette, initial letter, cul de lampe, tailpiece, lapidary, lapidarian, insculptured, engraved, lapidary, sculpsit, imprimit.