Inflected zinced, zin(c)ked, zincing, zin(c)king. [f. prec. sb.] trans. To cover or coat with zinc or some compound of zinc (esp. ironwork, as a preservative from rust); to treat with zinc, add zinc to. Hence Zinced ppl. a., Zincing vbl. sb.
1841. Civil Eng. & Arch. Jrnl., IV. 328/2. Improvements … in tinning or zincing metal. Ibid., 353/2. Zinked nails and bolts.
1841. Brande, Chem. (ed. 5), 731. The advantage of zinced iron.
1843. Pract. Mech. & Eng. Mag., II. 342. These processes enable us to zinc in an economical manner, iron, steel [etc.]. Ibid. An estimate for zinking the suspension bridge at Hungerford Market.
1890. Jrnl. Franklin Inst., Nov., 401. The conditions under which the zincked pipe is to be used.
1891. J. A. Phillips & Bauerman, Elem. Metall. (ed. 3), 700. Parkes’s process, or, as it is now frequently called, ‘zincing.’
1895. Morris, in Mackail, W. M. (1899), II. 319. The little barn finished with a zinked iron roof.
