Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun Obsolete preterit and past participle of fling.
- noun In stereotyping, a combination of several sheets of moist tissue-paper successively superposed, with thin paste between: used by stereotypers, in the papier-maché process, to form a mold or matrix from composed types.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- imp. & p. p. of
fling . - noun (Stereotyping) A compressed mass of paper sheets, forming a matrix or mold for stereotype plates.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
mould , especially one made frompapier-mâché , used to create astereotype . - verb obsolete Simple past of
fling .
Etymologies
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French flan
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Examples
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943: Turn'd wilde in nature, broke their stalls, flong out,
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1193: And the blind to heare him speak: Matrons flong Gloues,
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