noun
a bluish-white, metallic chemical element, usually found in combination, used as a protective coating for iron, as a constituent in various alloys, as an electrode in electric batteries, and, in the form of salts, in medicines: symbol, Zn; at. no., 30
Origin:
Ger zink, zinc, orig., prong, point: first used by Philippus Aureolus Paracelsus (c. 1526): from the form of the crystals on smelting; akin to OHG zint, a point, jag < Gmc *tindja > tine
transitive verb zincked or zinced, zincking or zincing
to coat or treat with zinc; galvanize