flatting mill

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flatting mill - 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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