1720 T. Williams 17 The best Ore must be had for making Copper fit for the Brass Kettles, or for the Plating-Mills.
1877 R. W. Raymond 358 In 1750..Parliament..prohibited the erection in America of slitting, rolling, or plating mills, or steel furnaces.
1998 J. E. Triber ix. 145 By 1785 he had acquired his own plating mill for the production of sheet silver.