"Bower-Barff" meaning in English

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    {
      "form": "Bower-Barffing",
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      "form": "Bower-Barffed",
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  "pos": "verb",
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          "ref": "1883, Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers:",
          "text": "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 single large article; […]",
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      "glosses": [
        "To subject (metal) to the Bower-Barff process for reducing corrosion."
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          "Bower-Barff process",
          "Bower-Barff process"
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          "corrosion",
          "corrosion"
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      "raw_glosses": [
        "(transitive) To subject (metal) to the Bower-Barff process for reducing corrosion."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Barff"
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  "word": "Bower-Barff"
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    {
      "form": "Bower-Barffs",
      "tags": [
        "present",
        "singular",
        "third-person"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Bower-Barffing",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "present"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Bower-Barffed",
      "tags": [
        "participle",
        "past"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "Bower-Barffed",
      "tags": [
        "past"
      ]
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          "ref": "1883, Minutes of Proceedings of the Institution of Civil Engineers:",
          "text": "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 single large article; […]",
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        "To subject (metal) to the Bower-Barff process for reducing corrosion."
      ],
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          "Bower-Barff process",
          "Bower-Barff process"
        ],
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          "corrosion",
          "corrosion"
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        "(transitive) To subject (metal) to the Bower-Barff process for reducing corrosion."
      ],
      "synonyms": [
        {
          "word": "Barff"
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