To join or unite firmly together; to cement or bind closely.
From Latin con- (together) + ferruminare (to solder, cement), from ferrum (iron). This is an extremely rare technical term, mostly obsolete.
This wonderfully obscure word comes from metalworking—ferruminare literally means to solder iron—showing how ancient technology vocabularies left traces in learned English.
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