To lay, overlay (gilding on a surface); to set (jewels in their setting). Obsolete.

transitive. To cover or overlay with plates of metal, for ornament, protection, or strength. Also figurative.

transitive. To furnish with a bush; to line (an orifice) with metal.

transitive. To cover (something) with a thin layer of (a specified) metal other than gold. Also intransitive.

(Often sheath.) To cover (a ship, a door, roof, etc.) with a sheathing of metal.

transitive. Chiefly Scottish. To cover with a coating of metal deposited from solution; chiefly in to water over. In early use figurative. Cf. wash…

To deposit (one metal upon another). rare.

To cover or overlay with plates (of metal).

To cover with a film of metal deposited from a solution.

transitive. To renew the metal plating on (an object).

transitive. To provide with a replacement bush (bush, n.3). Also intransitive.

transitive. = electroplate, v.

transitive. To coat or cover with metal.