[f. ELECTRO- + PLATE.] trans. To coat with silver by electrolysis. Hence, Electro-plater, one who electroplates. Electro-plating vbl. sb.
1870. Eng. Mech., 25 Feb., 590/1. I electro-plated many articles.
c. 1865. G. Gore, in Circ. Sc., I. 215/1. The kind chiefly in use by electro-platers, is the German or Liége zinc.
1865. Reader, 23 Sept., 351/1. Elkington founded the first establishment in this country, for carrying out the processes of electro-plating.
1879. Cassell’s Techn. Educ., I. 93. The electro-plating process began at Birmingham.
