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EKI terminibaas Esterm

ID 717538 Last modified 30.12.2004
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Domain precious metals and gemstones
  • to work metal or other malleable material by frequent striking; to hammer
  • to shape by beating, to forge, to flatten or expand superficially by beating; also with out
beating
Usage examples
  • Gold Leaf, An ounce may be beaten into sixteen hundred leaves each three inches square.
  • Four principal operations constitute the art of gold-beating. 1 The casting of the gold ingots ... 4 The beating.

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