Beating

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Definition: en:The process of flattening and consolidating the leaves or gatherings of a printed book before sewing by beating them with a heavy hammer., en:A hand operation of flattening the leaves or sections of a book before sewing, the purpose of which is to compress or, in the process of rebinding, to remove the backing shoulders.

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Language code"Language code" is a predefined property that represents a BCP47 formatted language code and is provided by Semantic MediaWiki.	Translated term	Source	Citation textThis property is a special property in this wiki.	Status	Skos:scopeNote
en	beating1	Etherington	Roberts, Don., et al. Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books : a Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology. Library of Congress : For Sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. G.P.O., 1982.	preferred	A hand operation of flattening the leaves or sections of a book before sewing, the purpose of which is to compress or, in the process of rebinding, to remove the backing shoulders.
en	beating2	Ligatus	"The Language of Bindings Thesaurus is made available under the [Open Data Commons Attribution License: http://opendatacommons.org/licenses/by/1.0] ."	preferred	The process of flattening and consolidating the leaves or gatherings of a printed book before sewing by beating them with a heavy hammer.