01 n. The process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out.
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The process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out.
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A mode of painting,in which the paint, being mixed with turpentine, leaves the work without gloss.
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A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size.
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The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rolls.
Phrases & compounds
Flatting coat —
a coat of paint so put on as to have no gloss.
Flatting mill —
A rolling mill producing sheet metal; esp., in mints, the mill producing the ribbon from which the planchets are punched.