flong
UK/flɒŋ/US/flɔŋ/
flong noun: a mould, especially one made from papier-mâché, used to create a stereotype. Also the simple past of fling.
Noun
flong (plural flongs)
- A mould, especially one made from papier-mâché, used to create a stereotype.
- A few sheets of paper are soaked in water and then pasted together to form a flong. This flong is beaten into a page of type and dried, thus forming a matrix to receive the molten metal, which, when cooled, becomes an exact duplicate of the type page.1892, Charles Sumner Partridge, Stereotyping, the Papier Mache Process
- Because it was made from malleable material, a flong was a convenient intermediary for turning a flat page of type into the semi-cylindrical shape required by the huge newspaper presses of the twentieth century, whose printing surface was a spinning drum.2025, Dennis Duncan, “Stylus & Substance”, in Literary Review, number 547
Also used as
flong is also the simple past of fling.
Forms of flong
| plural | flongs |
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Origin of flong
From French flan.
Words that rhyme with flong
Questions about flong
- What does flong mean?
- Flong means a mould, especially one made from papier-mâché, used to create a stereotype.
- What part of speech is flong?
- Flong is a noun.
- How do you pronounce flong?
- Flong is pronounced /flɒŋ/ (UK).
- What is the plural of flong?
- The plural of flong is flongs.
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