She was planked right up to her covering-board, and while one strong gang of workmen was busy fitting her bulwarks, another gang, upon stages, was hard at work caulking her, a third gang under her bottom, having apparently just commenced the operation of Coppering.
"The Log of a Privateersman"
Harry Collingwood
Not that you have not played your game well enough, but there never was a game played so well that some other fellow could not win by Coppering it.
"54-40 or Fight"
Emerson Hough
He told husband that he had been "Coppering" the market ever since he came to the city and had "taken every trick."
"The Comstock Club"
Charles Carroll Goodwin