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Gold-beating

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Gold´-beat`ing (gōld´bēt`ĭng)

n.

1.

The art or process of reducing gold to extremely thin leaves, by beating with a hammer.

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Gold beater's skin
gold leaf

goldbeater
goldbeating

After being beaten in the manner I have described, the material soon becomes blended in one mass, which, moistened occasionally with water, is at intervals hammered out, by a kind of gold-beating process, to any degree of thinness required.

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