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sherardize

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sher⋅ard⋅ize

  [sher-er-dahyz]
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–verb (used with object), -ized, -iz⋅ing. Metallurgy.
to coat (steel) with a thin cladding of zinc by heating in a mixture of sand and powdered zinc.
Also, especially British, sher⋅ard⋅ise.

Origin:
1900–05; after Sherard Cowper Coles (d. 1936), English inventor; see -ize
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