flong

English

Etymology 1

From (deprecated template usage) [etyl] French flan.

Noun

flong (plural flongs)

1. (printing) A mould, especially one made from papier-mâché, used to create a stereotype.
   • 1892: Stereotyping, the Papier Mache Process, Charles Sumner Partridge,

     A few sheets of paper are soaked in water and then pasted together to form a flong. This flong is beaten into a page of type and dried, thus forming a matrix to receive the molten metal, which, when cooled, becomes an exact duplicate of the type page.

Etymology 2

Verb

flong

1. (obsolete) simple past of fling