Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To harden and preserve, as wood, by a process consisting in placing the material to be treated in a close chamber, depriving it of its air by means of an air-pump, and then injecting a solution of sulphid of calcium or of barium, following this with a solution of sulphate of lime.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To treat or preserve, as wood, by a process resembling kyanizing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb dated, transitive To
treat orpreserve (wood etc.) by a process resemblingkyanization .
Etymologies
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Payne + -ize, after the inventor.
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