braze

/bɹeɪz/

Etymology

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

braze means to cover with brass, or as with brass. Lexicurio rates it Sui generis — a strength score of 85 out of 100.

braze is pronounced /bɹeɪz/.

verb

To cover with brass, or as with brass.
To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness.
To burn or temper in fire.

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.”