flanging machine

Sheet-metal : A machine usually having two rollers so constructed and arranged as to bend over the edge of a piece of tin-plate which is pa ed between them. The modes of bending are known as bending, burring, seaming, flanging, . flăńk, *flancke, *flanke, *flawnke, s . [Fr. flanc =side, prop. the weak part of the body, from Lat. flaccus weak, then being inserted, as in jongleur , from Lat. joculator . So in Ger. weiche =softne , weichen the side, from weich =soft ( Skeat ); Ital. fianco ; Sp. & Port. flanco ; Dut., Sw., & Dan. flank.] I. Ordinary Language : 1. The fleshy or muscular part of the side between the hips and the thigh. "Pierced in the flank, lamented youth, he lies." Pope: Homer's Iliad, xvi. 379. 2. In the same sense as II. 5. II. Technically : 1. Architecture : (1) The haunch of an arch; the shoulder between the crown and the springing. (2) The return side of any body, as of a house, a wall, an ashlar in position, . 2. Fort .: That portion of a bastion which reaches from the face to the curtain. The flank of one bastion commands the ditch before the curtain and the face of the opposite bastion. [BASTION.] 3. Gearing: The acting surface of a cog, within the pitch-line. The outer portion is the face. 4. Leather- trade : The thin portion of a skin of leather; that which previously covered the flank of the animal. 5. Mil .: The side of an army, a division of an army, or any body of soldiers.