Malleation

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Malleation \Mal`le*a"tion\, n. [LL. malleatio: cf. OF.
     mall['e]ation.]
     The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf,
     as a metal; extension by beating.
     [1913 Webster]