Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A powerful press, generally hydraulic, employed to compress goods, as cotton, linen, hay, straw, etc., into small bulk for convenience of transport.
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Hence it is most commonly used as a packing-press, being superior to every other contrivance of the kind that has yet been invented; and though exercising a prodigious force, it is so easily managed that a boy can work it.
Industrial Biography Smiles, Samuel, 1812-1904 1863
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Hence it is most commonly used as a packing-press, being superior to every other contrivance of the kind that has yet been invented; and though exercising a prodigious force, it is so easily managed that a boy can work it.
Industrial Biography, Iron Workers and Tool Makers Samuel Smiles 1858
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