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Flashing
Webster's Dictionary
or (1):
(n.) A mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass.
(2):
(n.) The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; - called also flushing.
(3):
(p. pr. & vb. n.) of Flash
(4):
(n.) Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting.
(5):
(n.) The reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Flashing'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/f/flashing.html. 1828.
