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nounbrass (or a yellow alloy resembling brass) that was hammered into thin sheets; formerly used for church utensilstype of:
Definition that contains latten
- ray cartilaginous fishes having horizontally flattened bodies and enlarged winglike pectoral fins with gills on the underside; most swim by moving the pectoral fins
- roll flatten or spread with a roller
- flat flattened laterally along the whole length (e.g., certain leafstalks or flatfishes)
- draw flatten, stretch, or mold metal or glass, by rolling or by pulling it through a die or by stretching
- bowl a wooden ball (with flattened sides so that it rolls on a curved course) used in the game of lawn bowling
- depressed flattened downward as if pressed from above or flattened along the dorsal and ventral surfaces
- scale a flattened rigid plate forming part of the body covering of many animals
- web the flattened weblike part of a feather consisting of a series of barbs on either side of the shaft
- crab decapod having eyes on short stalks and a broad flattened carapace with a small abdomen folded under the thorax and pincers
- moose large northern deer with enormous flattened antlers in the male; called `elk' in Europe and `moose' in North America