Stip′pling-ma-chine′.
(Metal-working.) A machine or tool for giving a roughened or, as it is termed, matted surface to metal in order that the dead portions may form a foil to the more lustrous ones.
See patents 111,086, January 17, 1871; 126,408, May 7, 1872; 128,290, June 25, 1872.