malleation

English

Etymology

Latin malleatio: compare Old French malleation.

Noun

malleation (countable and uncountable, plural malleations)

1. The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating.
2. A hammering movement of the hands against the thighs, a form of tic.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “malleation”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)