资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Flatting \Flat"ting\, 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. --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.

   {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 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.