parkerizing
/ˈpɑːkərʌɪzɪŋ
/(also parkerising)
noun [mass noun] trademark in the US
A process for rustproofing iron or steel by brief immersion in a hot acidic solution of a metal phosphate.Most have the nice blue finish instead of parkerizing, and good old fashioned walnut stocks, which my customers like....
- Finish is a matte black powder coat over parkerizing.
Derivatives
parkerized
- It has the same features as the parkerized model, including 3.5-inch barrel, 3-dot sights and six-round magazine.
- The number one gun was parkerized, the only one so finished, and the rest were finished in Wilson's ‘Armor-Tuft’ coating.
- The magazine well is slightly beveled, and the parkerized finish is a little different color from the wartime guns, but that's about it.
Origin
1920s: from Parker Rust-Proof Company of America (which introduced the process) + -ize + -ing1.
- feelingly
- feelingness
- feel like (doing) something
- feel one's age
- feel one's oats
- feel one's way
- feel (or find) one's legs
- feel (or look) small
- feel (or take) the pulse of
- feel small
- feel the draught
- feel the pinch
- feel the pulse of
- feelthy
- feely
- fee-paying
- fee simple
- feet
- fee tail
- feet first
- feet of clay
- feh
- Fehling's reagent
- Fehling's solution
- Feiffer, Jules