Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In English printing-offices, the workman who manages or controls the operations of a printing-machine. In the United States known as the pressman.
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Examples
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In fact, the Humanoid shtick is just a way of presenting himself as a machine-man built for pleasuring the ladies, and it doesn't extend to his other songs.
Talay Riley (No 859) 2010
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With regular steps tramped the machine-man Tik-tok, and there was more cheering when the Wizard of Oz followed in the procession.
Love Letters 2010
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If you've ridden the Boulder bike paths recently and come across a unique machine-man hybrid, we hope you weren't too alarmed.
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Says a consultant: "What's needed is a sea change in the machine-man interface."
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‘They won’t be open yet this hour, except the saddler and ironmonger and little tacker-haired machine-man for the farm folk.
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I seem to look down a long, dark funnel and see a little machine-man bearing my semblance, patiently, steadily, wearily turning the handle of a windlass in the clear, lancinating cold of those sombre, silent days.
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Behind him stalked with regular, jerky steps, the famous machine-man called Tik-tok, who had been wound up by Dorothy for the occasion.
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With regular steps tramped the machine-man Tik-tok, and there was more cheering when the Wizard of Oz followed in the procession.
The Road to Oz 1887
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With regular steps tramped the machine-man Tik-tok, and there was more cheering when the Wizard of
The Road to Oz 1887
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Behind him stalked with regular, jerky steps, the famous machine-man called Tik-tok, who had been wound up by Dorothy for the occasion.
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