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Flatting   Listen
noun
Flatting  n.  
1.
The process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out.
2.
A mode of painting,in which the paint, being mixed with turpentine, leaves the work without gloss.
3.
A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size.
4.
The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rolls.
Flatting coat, a coat of paint so put on as to have no gloss.
Flatting furnace. Same as flattening oven, under Flatten.
Flatting mill.
(a)
A rolling mill producing sheet metal; esp., in mints, the mill producing the ribbon from which the planchets are punched.
(b)
A mill in which grains of metal are flatted by steel rolls, and reduced to metallic dust, used for purposes of ornamentation.






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