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braze en · VERB · etymology 1

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /bɹeɪz/

Etymology

From Middle English brasen, from Old English brasian, bræsian (“to cover with brass”), from bræs (“brass”).

Meanings

1. (transitive) To cover with brass, or as with brass.

Forms

Relateds

brazen

braze en · NOUN · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /bɹeɪz/

Etymology

1580s, "to expose to the action of fire", perhaps from French braser (“to solder, weld”), though the sense evolution is difficult to explain. Perhaps the English word is older, being unrecorded in Middle English but borrowed from Old French braser (“to burn”), which fits the meaning more closely. Old French braser derives from Old Norse brasa (“to braze, harden with fire”). Also possible is that the Middle English and English words were borrowed directly from Old Norse.

Meanings

1. A kind of small charcoal used for roasting ore.
   • Roasting the ores is done with the charcoal braze (or fine charcoal from the charring) in heaps of thirty feet width, fifty-feet length and twenty feet height, containing 3,200 tons. 1877, Charles P. Williams, Industrial Report on Lead, Zinc and Iron, Together with Notes on Shannon County and Its Copper Deposits, Regan & Carter, page 144:

Forms

braze en · VERB · etymology 2

Pronunciation

• (Southern-England) audio
• /bɹeɪz/

Etymology

1580s, "to expose to the action of fire", perhaps from French braser (“to solder, weld”), though the sense evolution is difficult to explain. Perhaps the English word is older, being unrecorded in Middle English but borrowed from Old French braser (“to burn”), which fits the meaning more closely. Old French braser derives from Old Norse brasa (“to braze, harden with fire”). Also possible is that the Middle English and English words were borrowed directly from Old Norse.

Meanings

1. To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness.
2. (obsolete) To burn or temper in fire.

Forms

Deriveds

brazer · braze welding

Translations (8)

ru спаивать (The joining together of two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness) · el χαλκοκολλώ (The joining together of two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness) · sv hårdlöda (The joining together of two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness) · pl zgrzewać (The joining together of two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness) · fr braser (The joining together of two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness) · pt brasar (The joining together of two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness) · ru припаивать (The joining together of two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness) · es soldar fuertemente / al fuerte (The joining together of two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness)