encrust
verb
[ ɪnˈkrʌst ]
• cover or decorate (something) with a hard surface layer.
• "the mussels encrust navigation buoys"
Origin:
early 17th century (in the sense ‘cause to form a crust’): from French incruster or encroûter, both from Latin incrustare, from in- ‘into’ + crusta ‘a crust’.
