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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Flatting \Flat"ting\, n.
1. The process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of
glass by opening it out.
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2. A mode of painting,in which the paint, being mixed with
turpentine, leaves the work without gloss. --Gwilt.
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3. A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching
with size. --Knolles.
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4. The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it
between rolls.
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{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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