Today, however, he wasn't lifting anyone's coppers.
He ended up too sick to steal coppers.
The revolutionaries went about among the excited people with baskets, begging coppers for their destitute and miserable governor.
The process of soap-boiling is carried out in large iron boilers called " soap pans " or " coppers," some of which have capacity for a charge of 30 tons or more.
Commercial coppers sometimes owe their good qualities to this compensating influence.