transitive. To make (metal) shining by friction; to furbish; to polish (a surface) by rubbing with a hard and smooth tool.

transitive. Perhaps: to burnish by shaking in a barrel of sand. Compare earlier ruoken, v. Obsolete. rare.

To cover with lead. Also with over.

transitive. To make of brass; to cover or ornament with brass.

transitive. To form (molten metal) into ingots, pigs, etc., by allowing to flow into moulds; †to smelt (obsolete).

transitive. Chemistry. To place (metals and reagent substances or fuel) in alternate layers in a crucible, chamber, etc. Obsolete.

transitive. To subject (the puddled ball) to pressure and blows from a hammer so as to expel impurities.

transitive. To raise, or force up, into bosses or projections by the use of the snarling-iron.

transitive. To make or beat (metal) into plates. Obsolete. rare.

To make into bars.

transitive. To wash (ore) in a strake. Also Gold-mining, to concentrate (ore) by means of strakes.

To cut (glass, tin-plate, etc.) with shears. Also, to cut (iron or steel bars, etc.) with shears (see shear, n.1 1g).

transitive. Metallurgy. To fasten together (bars or rods of puddled iron) for reheating, welding, and rolling or forging. Cf. pile, n.6 1g.

transitive. To make (colours, etc.) dull; to give a matt or dull appearance to (metal, gilding, etc.); to dull the glossy appearance of. Also: to…

transitive. To coat (moulds for steel) with soot. Now historical.

To hammer or squeeze the ball or lump of iron from the puddle-furnace into a ‘bloom’; to shingle.

transitive. To cause to combine with silicon or its compounds; esp. to subject (a metal) to a process in which the surface is impregnated with…

Mechanics. To mix, cleanse, or polish in a tumbling-box. Cf. tumbler, n. 13e.

transitive. To make (a metal object) rustproof, typically by applying a resistant surface coating.

transitive. To remove the tin from (scrap tin plate).

To cut or prepare a blank (see blank, n. 9); often const. out. Hence blanked adj., blanking n.

To cover (aluminium or its alloys) with a protective layer of aluminium oxide by means of electrolysis.

transitive. To make or form (an article) by rolling a material or passing it between rollers.