1750 Act 23 Geo. II c. 29 § ix, in (1764) VII. 263 No mill or other engine for slitting or rolling of iron, or any plateing-forge to work with a tilt hammer, or any furnace for making steel, shall be erected..in any of his Majesty's colonies in America.
1792 J. Sinclair III. 335 They have..a forge for making malleable iron, and a plating forge.
1953 19 159 (note) Governor Ogle reported in 1750 that there was only one plating forge in the colony [sc. Maryland].