Definition of Flating
Flat"ting (?), 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.
Gwilt.
3. A method of preserving gilding
unburnished, by touching with size. Knolles.
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 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.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- (Australian) the practice of living, with others, in a flat
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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