A band or cap (usually metal) placed around a shaft to reinforce it or to prevent splitting.
The plastic band attaching the tip to the cue.
The pinched metal band which holds the bristles of a paintbrush to the shaft.
The metal spike at the end of the shaft of an ice axe.
A bushing for securing a pipe joint.
A metal sleeve placed inside a gutter at the top.
To equip with a ferrule.
A solid block of more or less pure metal, often but not necessarily bricklike in shape and trapezoidal in cross-section, the result of pouring out and cooling molten metal, often immediately after smelting from raw ore or alloying from constituents.
To form (scraps of metal) into ingots.