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Blacking-bag

A coarse linen or worsted bag to hold charcoal-dust or other facing, and by means of which to distribute the same evenly over the surface of greensand moulds by a process of shaking. The loose dust is afterward pressed close by returning the pattern, or with the moulder's tools. See FACING; PRINTING.

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