Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In printing, a thin piece of brass or steel fitted to the composing-stick, on or against which the compositor places and arranges the types.
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There was no sound in the barren, barn-like room but the birds above, and below the click of the composing-rule as the editor marshalled the types into lines in his stick, and arrayed them in solid column on the galley.
Mrs. Skagg's Husbands and Other Stories Bret Harte 1869
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