What is "galvanise"

Usage examples of "galvanise".

It is a girl called Marie Joliet, who used every evening to come drunk to the Bal Bullier, and who had a look in her eyes of death galvanised into life.

It was very solidly built of brown stone, and, with the exception of the waggon-shed and other outbuildings which were roofed with galvanised iron, that shone and glistened in the rays of the morning sun in a way that would have made an eagle blink, was covered with rich brown thatch.

Her shining copper sheathing, her galvanised iron-work, her deck, white as ivory, betrayed the pride taken by John Bunsby in making her presentable.

Or make a small hole in a bucket, fill it with water, and hang it over a galvanised pan or a metal garbage lid set on bricks.

Dennis, because until your father galvanised the selection panel she was unopposed.

A spidery, thin man in a tatty sweater, all elbows and knuckles, his hair standing up as though galvanised, was seated at the table in front of a plate piled high with mashed potato, the mash peppered with sausagesand a brand new bottle of the ubiquitous British brown sauce clutched in his hand ready to gloop.

A small range backed into the rough stone of the chimney and in one corner was a hot-water tank and an old galvanised tin bath.

I thrashed as if galvanised and it took him a moment to immobilise my other arm long enough to repeat the process.

From the axle trees of the vehicles swung carefully covered buckets of galvanised iron, in which the lunch was packed.

The ground crew waiting by the Sabre saw him coming and were galvanised into action.

He sauntered out of the house, hands in pockets, and watched as I lugged three galvanised wash tubs from the rear of my van.