All 3 Uses

galvanize
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All the Pretty Horses
(Edited)

The boiler was made from the lower half of a galvanized watertank and to bring it to this location they'd run a wooden axleshaft through the bottom and made a wooden spider whereby to bed the axle in the open end and with a team of horses rolled the tank across the desert from Zaragoza eighty miles to the east.
Chpt 1

galvanized = coated with zinc (to prevent rust)
They carried their dishes to a galvanized tub full of water and soapcurd and they carried the lamp to their bunks at the farther end of the bunkhouse and unrolled the ticks down over the rusty springs and spread their blankets and undressed and blew out the lamp.
Chpt 1
He tied the horses in front of the tienda he'd passed the night before and went in and bought a sack of oats for the horses and he borrowed a galvanized bucket with which to water them and he stood in the alameda leaning on the rifle and watching them drink.
Chpt 4 *

Definitions:

(1) (galvanize as in: galvanized into action)
to stimulate to action
(2) (galvanize as in: galvanized steel)
to cover steel or iron with zinc (to prevent rust)

Galvanized iron or steel is resistant to rust due to electrochemical protection.
(3) (meaning too rare to warrant focus)
Much more rarely, but especially in classic literature, the word may reference Galvani's experiment of 1771 in which he made a dead frog leg twitch by applying electric current.