nickel-platev.
/ˌnɪklˈpleɪt/, U.S. /ˌnɪk(ə)lˈpleɪt/ transitive. To coat with a thin layer of nickel.
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society > occupation and work > industry > working with specific materials > working with metal > work with metal [verb (transitive)] > coat or cover with metal > with specific metal
tin1398
leadc1440
ironc1450
lay1472
copper1530
braze1552
silverize1605
foliate1665
plate1686
whiten1687
foil1714
blanch1729
quicken1738
amalgam1789
quick1790
aluminize1791
plate1791
zincify1801
platinize1825
resilver1832
galvanize1839
electroplate1843
zinc1843
electro-silver1851
platinate1858
electrotin1859
white-lead1863
palladiumize1864
white-metal1864
brassc1865
nickelize1865
nickel-plate1872
nickel1875
stopper1884
electro1891
sherardize1904
steel1911
stellite1934
flame-plate1954
steel-face1961
1872 Scribner's Monthly Aug. 482/1 Have your blocks made of brass, and if you want to avoid the trouble of cleaning them, have them nickel-plated.
1922 O. Mitchell Talking Machine Industry vi. 69 Several matrices are formed, which are then nickel-plated, [etc.].
1993 Guitarist (BNC) Jan. After engraving, the bodies were nickel-plated, and that's why a 60-year old guitar can be so shiny.
Derivatives
ˈnickel-plater n. now rare
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society > occupation and work > worker > workers according to type of work > manual or industrial worker > workers with specific materials > metalworker > [noun] > nickel-workers
nickel-worker1858
nickel-plater1875
1875 R. Hunt & F. W. Rudler Ure's Dict. Arts (ed. 7) II. 221 The veteran nickel-plater of the states.
1908 Daily Chron. 21 July 5/3 At Birmingham Assizes yesterday Martin Garoghan, aged 19, nickel-plater, was sentenced to death.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2003; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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