ferrotype

verb (used with object), fer·ro·typed, fer·ro·typ·ing.

1. to put a glossy surface on (a print) by pressing, while wet, on a metal sheet (ferrotype tin).

noun

2. Also called tintype. a positive photograph made on a sensitized sheet of enameled iron or tin.
3. the process of making such photographs.

noun

1. a photographic print produced directly in a camera by exposing a sheet of iron or tin coated with a sensitized enamel
2. the process by which such a print is produced