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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en	beating1	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.
en	beating2	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.