flatting (root: flat)

• POS: Noun
• HYPHEN: flat=ting

CIDE DICTIONARY

flatting, n. 

•  The process or operation of making flat, as a cylinder of glass by opening it out.  [1913 Webster]
•  A mode of painting,in which the paint, being mixed with turpentine, leaves the work without gloss.  Gwilt.  [1913 Webster]
•  A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size.  Knolles.  [1913 Webster]
•  The process of forming metal into sheets by passing it between rolls.  [1913 Webster]

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.