sheeting
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Sheeting or exfoliation is when the rock surface spalls off in layers.
From Textbooks • Jan. 1, 2017
Sheeting machines take the dough from a chunk to a silky-smooth 35-foot-long expanse less than a millimeter thick before cutting it into the pieces that become cannoli shells.
From Washington Post
Sheeting Machines.—The foregoing paragraphs have dealt entirely with machines for crepe preparation.
From The Preparation of Plantation Rubber by Morgan, Sidney
Bolton, or Workhouse Sheeting, is a coarse twilled cotton fabric, seventy-two inches wide, of a beautiful soft creamy colour, which improves much in washing.
From Handbook of Embroidery by Alford, Marianne Margaret Compton Cust, Viscountess
Down bursts the gale—the surges sweep, Like gathering hosts, against the steep, Sheeting, with clouds of snowy spray, Its lofty forehead, old and gray.
