"flashing" Definition

Definitions for the word "flashing" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. p. pr. & vb. n.
of Flash
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
The creation of an artifical flood by the sudden letting in of a body of water; -- called also flushing.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
Pieces of metal, built into the joints of a wall, so as to lap over the edge of the gutters or to cover the edge of the roofing; also, similar pieces used to cover the valleys of roofs of slate, shingles, or the like. By extension, the metal covering of ridges and hips of roofs; also, in the United States, the protecting of angles and breaks in walls of frame houses with waterproof material, tarred paper, or the like. Cf. Filleting.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
The reheating of an article at the furnace aperture during manufacture to restore its plastic condition; esp., the reheating of a globe of crown glass to allow it to assume a flat shape as it is rotated.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
A mode of covering transparent white glass with a film of colored glass.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
6. n.
(usu. Metal) strip used to prevent water penetration at a roof joint etc. [dial.]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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