flatting Meaning, Definition & Usage

Flat"ting noun

Definitions

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.