hot-pressing

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· Boards made by hot-pressing without binders from straw, coconut husks, wood fibres, water hyacinth.

Chapter 4 1988
I bring this in here, because I really think it is something of kin to putting off counterfeit money; every false gloss put upon our woollen manufactures, by hot-pressing, folding, dressing, tucking, packing, bleaching, &c, what are they but washing over a brass shilling to make it pass for sterling?

The Complete English Tradesman (1839 ed.) Daniel Defoe 1696