Solder

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun anything which unites or cements.

II. Solder ·noun To Mend; to patch up.

III. Solder ·noun A metal or metallic alloy used when melted for uniting adjacent metallic edges or surfaces; a metallic cement.

IV. Solder ·noun To unite (metallic surfaces or edges) by the intervention of a more fusible metal or metallic alloy applied when melted; to join by means of metallic cement.