braze

From Old French braser (“to burn”).

• IPA^(key): /bɹeɪz/

  Rhymes: -eɪz

  Homophone: braise

braze (third-person singular simple present brazes, present participle brazing, simple past and past participle brazed)

1. To join two metal pieces, without melting them, using heat and diffusion of a jointing alloy of capillary thickness.
2. (obsolete) To burn or temper in fire.

• braze welding

braze (plural brazes)

1. A kind of small charcoal used for roasting ore.
   • 1877, Charles P. Williams, Industrial Report on Lead, Zinc and Iron, Together with Notes on Shannon County and Its Copper Deposits, Regan & Carter, page 144:

     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.

• brazen

• zebra