The Collaborative International Dictionary
Galvanize \Gal"va*nize\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Galvanized; p pr. & vb. n. Galvanizing.] [Cf. F. galvaniser.]
To affect with galvanism; to subject to the action of electrical currents.
To plate, as with gold, silver, etc., by means of electricity.
To restore to consciousness by galvanic action (as from a state of suspended animation); hence, to stimulate or excite to a factitious animation or activity.
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To coat, as iron, with zinc. See Galvanized iron.
Galvanized iron, formerly, iron coated with zink by electrical deposition; now more commonly, iron coated with zink by plunging into a bath of melted zink, after its surface has been cleaned by friction with the aid of dilute acid.
WordNet
n. iron that is coated with zinc to protect it from rust
Usage examples of "galvanized iron".
Yet her anger fuelled her, and when she saw the galvanized iron roofs of the mine buildings shining in the sun her weariness dropped away.
This contained a galvanized iron bath in which one could stretch out full length.
It is an area of mean cottages, tiny workers houses of galvanized iron on timber frames, each with a bleak little garden.
And he remembered the stocky Japanese field hand who had been willing to fight him over the matter of galvanized iron for the hot bath.
There was silence in the tiny ward, except for the pinking of the galvanized iron roof as it expanded in the noon heat.
The smelt house was the only brick building among all the galvanized iron.
A skeletal metal tower supported a 2,000-gallon galvanized iron water-tank, and beyond that was the encampment which housed the African labour force.
Part of the curved roof of corrugated galvanized iron had been blown fifty feet away.