linotype

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For Sam had installed a linotype, and Wilbur Cowan had patiently mastered its distracting intricacies.

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  1. A machine in which stereotyped lines (of words) are produced, for use in printing.
  2. A machine in which stereotyped lines (of words) are produced, for use in printing. See cut in next column.
  3. Composed with the linotype machine.

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  • His days were spent at his linotype, where he refreshed himself occasionally from an ever-present gallon jug of cherry wine. —  To Kill A Mockingbird
  • My prediction: Editors will go the way of the linotype machine. —  Blogspotting - BusinessWeek
  • In 1907 Bowser purchased a linotype which was powered by a Fairbanks Morse gas engine. —  Chesterton Tribune
  • In the decades since, horses faded from Schwanke's life, as did typewriters, copy girls and linotype machines.
  • He worked as a printer, primarily as a journeyman linotype operator for many years at the Santa Fe New Mexican newspaper, as well as in El Paso, —  The Union - All Categories
 

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