"Bower-Barff" meaning in All languages combined

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Verb [English]

Forms: Bower-Barffs [present, singular, third-person], Bower-Barffing [participle, present], Bower-Barffed [participle, past], Bower-Barffed [past]
Head templates: {{en-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. Tags: transitive Synonyms: Barff

Inflected forms

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