scaling

Liable to rub the scales off fish, as some nets.

The process of adjusting sights to the guns on board of a ship.

The process of removing incrustations of salt and other foreign matters from the inner surface of boilers.

In metal-working, the first process in making tin-plate, in which the plates are placed in a bath of dilute muriatic acid and then heated in a scaling-furnace to remove the scale.

The act or process of removing the scales of fish.