galvanised
adj1
UK Of metal, coated with zinc as a form of protection against rust.
- galvanised pipes
- galvanised steel
2
Obsolete Having been subjected to galvanism; electrified.
- I go to London and see the busy multitudes in Fleet Street and the Strand, and it comes across my mind that they are but the ghosts of the past, haunting the streets that I have seen silent and wretched, going to and fro, phantasms in a dead city, the mockery of life in a galvanized body.1898, H.G. Wells, The War of the Worlds, London: William Heinemann, page 302: