flatting : Idioms & Phrases


Flatting coat

  • a coat of paint so put on as to have no gloss.
Webster 1913

Flatting furnace

  • . Same as Flattening oven, under Flatten.
Webster 1913

Flatting mill

  • . (a) A rolling mill producing sheet metal; esp., in mints, 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.
Webster 1913