Flatting
Flatting , noun
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.
Collocations (3)
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.