Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In printing, an elastic cylinder made of a composition of glue and molasses, or of glue, glycerin, and sugar, cast in a mold around a spindle or stock, for applying ink to type by being rolled over it.
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Examples
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Look here, we are sending you three men here from the factory for which you failed to produce this inking-roller, without which that factory will have to shut down its production.
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I was looking at the press, with the negative in one hand and the inking-roller in the other, when I became conscious of a shadow across the window.
Martin Hewitt, Investigator Arthur Morrison 1904
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It was a miniature printing-machine, with a little inking-roller, which was moved over the types each time by the mere process of stamping, so the stamper had only to pass the letters under the die with the one hand and stamp with the other as fast as he could.
Post Haste 1859
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If any two kinds of ink should be discovered mutually inadhesive, one stone might be employed for two inks; or if the inking-roller for the second and subsequent colours had portions cut away corresponding to those parts of the stone inked by the previous ones, then several colours might be printed from the same stone: but these principles do not appear to promise much, except for coarse subjects.
On the Economy of Machinery and Manufactures Charles Babbage 1831
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"I found an inking-roller, some old pieces of blanket (used in printing from plates), and in a corner on the floor, heaped over with newspapers and rubbish, a small copying-press.
Martin Hewitt, Investigator Arthur Morrison 1904
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