Crossword-Solution: FLONG
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Flong | - | imp. & p. p. of Fling. |
We have 4 clues for the answer “FLONG”
| Clue | Answers |
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| material used for making moulds in stereotyping | 1 answer |
| papier-mâché | 2 answers |
| CHEWED paper | 3 answers |
| paper pulp | 3 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with FLONG (5)
First, there is the stereotyping or casting of the line in its position in the type-setting machine after the matrices have been ranged in position by the application of the fingers to the various keys; and, secondly, when all the lines have been placed together to make a page, it is necessary to take an impression of them upon _papier mâché_, or what is technically called "flong," and then to dry it and make the full cast from it curved and ready for placing on the cylinder of the printing machine.
The delay occasioned by the need for drying the wet flong is such a serious matter--particularly to evening newspapers requiring many editions during the afternoon--that several dry methods have been tried with greater or less success.
The modern wet stereotype "flong," in common use today, consists of several layers of special paper pasted together to form a thick sheet.
The "flong" is covered with several blankets of thick felt and the table of the molding press is then automatically moved in under a powerful roller which squeezes the moist flong down into the form.
The molded matrix and the pattern with the blanket still on it is then transferred to the drying press, in which under a hot platten it is again squeezed and allowed to remain for a few minutes until the moisture is completely expelled from the molded flong.