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/ˈkäpərˌhed/,
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copperheads, plural;
  1. Any of a number of stout-bodied venomous snakes with coppery-pink or reddish-brown coloration, in particular

  1. common coppery brown pit viper of upland eastern United States
  2. venomous but sluggish reddish-brown snake of Australia
  3. In rock climbing, a copperhead is a small nut made of a soft metal, originally copper or brass, later usually aluminium. ...
  4. Copperhead, in comics, may refer to: * Copperhead (DC Comics) refers to two characters of that name published by DC Comics. * Copperhead (Marvel Comics) refers to a character of that name published by Marvel Comics.
  5. Copperhead is a DC Comics supervillain, he first appeared in The Brave and the Bold #78, June (1968) and was created by Bob Haney and Bob Brown.
  6. Copperhead is a 2008 horror film directed by Todor Chapkanov.
  7. Copperhead is a fictional character from the toyline, comic books and cartoon series of the 1980s. He is Cobra's Water Moccasin pilot and debuted in 1984.
  8. Copperhead is the name of a number of fictional characters in the Marvel Universe. The first two are similar characters that mimicked old pulp magazine heroes, wearing a suit of copper armor and shooting paralyzing or lethal darts, while the third is a member of the Serpent Society.
  9. The Copperheads were a vocal group of Democrats in the Northern United States (see also Union (American Civil War)) who opposed the American Civil War, wanting an immediate peace settlement with the Confederates. ...
  10. (Copperheads) Not every person living in the North during the Civil War favored making war against the Confederacy. Such persons came to be identi fied as Copperheads. ...
  11. (copperheads) A term used by some Republicans to describe Peace Democrats. It implied that they were traitors to the Union. Peace Democrats thought that the war was a failure and should be abandoned.
  12. n. Aid device made of a malleable copper alloy and slung on swaged wire cable, used to hammer into shallow grooves and slots in the rock. When pounded with a hammer and chisel, they deform to fit the shape of the rock. ...
  13. A very small piece of protection with a small malleable head made of copper or aluminum that is used in aid climbing. The climber pounds the head into slight cracks in the wall and prays it will hold his body weight until he can get his next piece in.
  14. A malleable chunk of metal (once made of copper, but now often aluminum), swaged (attached) to a flexible wire loop, that can be hammered into small depressions in the rock for protection in aid climbing.
  15. OP-20-G [Naval cryptology division] WWII advanced versions of tape-based electronic cryptanalytic machines.
  16. A northerner with southern sympathies; against Lincoln's war policy.
  17. Seditious, so-called anti-war individual, more interested in scoring political points than in defending the national security interests of the United States. ...
  18. a venomous snake of two varieties. The lowland copperhead (Austrelaps superbus) prefers to live in swampy or marshy areas, overwintering in animal burrows close to water. Lowland copperheads occur in the far south-eastern corner of South Australia and over much of southern Victoria. ...
  19. A small nut made of a soft copper or brass. Copperheads are placed in the smallest cracks and seams where their malleability means that they can conform to the rock and grip better: often they need to be hammered into place. ...
  20. a poisonous North American snake with a reddish-brown body and darker crossbands on its body.
  21. A cylinder of copper alloy swaged to a wire loop and pounded into shallow cracks or depressions for body-weight aid placements.
  22. With the beginning of the war, the Democratic party split into two factions: the Peace Democrats and the War Democrats. The former were opposed to the Republican (Lincoln's party) scheme to crush the South, and they gained power in 1861 and 1862, when northern hopes for quick victory were dim. ...
  23. A style of igniter, marketed by Aerotech, which uses two flat copper wafers separated by a paper insulator. Heat generated by current passing through the copper ignites a thin layer of pyrogen at the igniter’s head. See Crapperhead.
  24. Term for a Northerner who opposed the war effort.