Also 6 brase. [? a. F. brase-r to solder, in OF. braser to burn; prob. a. ON. *brasa to fire, expose to fire (cf. Sw. brasa to flame, Du. brase to roast). But the modern Eng. and French sense ‘solder’ does not come obviously from ‘fire’: one might suppose that in Eng. it was taken from or influenced by BRAZE v.1: but whence then the F. braser?]
† 1. To fire, expose to the action of fire. Obs.
1581. Lambarde, Eiren., IV. iv. 458. If any arrowhead Smith haue not well boiled, brased and hardened at the point with steele … such heads of arrowes … as he hath made.
2. To solder (with an alloy of brass and zinc).
1677. Moxon, Mech. Exerc. (1703), 12. You may have occasion sometimes to Braze … a piece of work; but it is used by Smiths only, when their work is so thin, or small, that it will not endure Welding.
1835. Sir J. Ross, N.-W. Pass., ii. 12. So much worn, as to require a piece to be brazed to it, to restore its thickness.
1875. ‘Stonehenge,’ Brit. Sports, I. V. xi. § 1.
1881. Greener, Gun, 235. It is a common practice with foreign makers to braze their barrels together from end to end.
