Bower-Barffs

Verb

Bower-Barff (third-person singular simple present Bower-Barffs, present participle Bower-Barffing, simple past and past participle Bower-Barffed)

1. (transitive) To subject (metal) to the Bower-Barff process for reducing corrosion.
   • It will no doubt be obvious that the cost of oxidizing by the Bower or Barff process — or, to use a more abbreviated expression, Bower-Barffing — varies considerably; for example, one thousand small articles may be treated at the same time, and in the same cubical space, that might be occupied by a...1883, Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers

   Synonyms:

   Barff