Flatting /(?)/

Flat·ting

Flatting

n.
  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.
  3. A method of preserving gilding unburnished, by touching with size.
  4. 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 furnace
Same as flattening oven, under Flatten.
Flatting mill
A rolling mill producing sheet metal; esp., in mints, the mill producing the ribbon from which the planchets are punched.