In the earliest ages wire was flatted with a hammer on the anvil; and the broad slips were cut into small threads by women with a pair of scissors.
It would be of some importance if one could determine the period when flatted metal wire began to be spun round linen or silk thread, by which improvement various articles of dress and ornament are rendered more beautiful as well as cheaper.
The wire is flatted at present by means of a flatting-mill, which consists of two steel cylinders, put in motion by a handle, and as the wire passes through between them it is compressed and rendered flat.
Three times as much silk can be covered by flatted as by round wire; so that tassels and other articles become cheap in proportion.
When he begins, the silent senate stand, With reverence listening to the dread command: The clouds dispel; the winds their breath restrain; And the hushed waves lie flatted on the main.
A thread formed by twistingflatted gold over a thread of silk, with a wheel and iron bobbins; spun gold.
A mill in which grains of metal are flatted by steel rolls, and reduced to metallic dust, used for purposes of ornamentation.
Then she heard Mandy's thin, flatted tones announcing: "This hyer girl wants to git a job in the mill.
The principal nicety consists in so regulating the movements that the successive volutions of the flatted wire on each thread may just touch one another, and form a continuous covering.
Gold thread, or spun gold, is a flatted silver-gilt wire, wrapped or laid over a thread of yellow silk, by twisting with a wheel and iron bobbins.
The silver rod is encased in the gold leaf, and the compound cylinder is then drawn into round wire down to a certain size, which is afterwards flatted in a rolling mill such as is described under MINT.
The flatted heads have become hardened by the blow of the hammer; when annealed by heating and slow cooling, they are handed to the piercer.
In France the Guidonian system was adhered to closely, and to this day the bécarré is used only as an accidental, to indicate that the note to which it refers has been flatted before.
In the space of a few minutes the Gold will be entirely dissolved, especially if it was cut and flatted into small thin leaves.
Mr. Marggraff observes, that the Zinc obtained by his process bears being flatted under the hammer into pretty thin plates; which the common Zinc will not do.
James Orton, the traveler, was also struck with the likeness of the American Indians to the Chinese, including the flatted nose.
We had at this time very little wind, so that all the boats were employed to tow us out of the bay; and even what wind there was, lasted only long enough to give us an offing of two or three leagues, when it flatted to a calm.
The first of these are denominated Flats, from the circumstance of this species of money being cut out of flatted plates, composed of a mixture of silver and blanched copper.
Similarly, when three or more degrees are flatted in the signature, double-flats are used to make certain degrees already flatted, represent pitches one half-step lower yet.
The neck is thick and muscular, nearly round, but somewhat flatted at top, and has little or no dewlap dependant from it.
The fruit is a drupe, containing a large blackishflatted seed.
Whoever has carefully examined these, when the sun is very powerful, will find many little transparent lumps of the appearance of jelly, the size of a pea, andflatted upon one side.
These pieces are flatted at one end on the anvil, by force of a puncheon of well-tempered steel, and laid on a leaden block to bring out, with another puncheon, the little piece of steel remaining in the eye.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "flatted" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
