Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In printing: In the cylinder printing-machine, a flat table of iron which upholds the form of type and passes to and fro under the impression cylinder.
- noun In the hand-press, an iron table upholding the form of type that passes to and fro under the platen. See cut of stop-cylinder machine at printing-machine.
- noun A bed inclosed in solid woodwork like a cupboard, or made to fold or turn up so as to be put in a cupboard.
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Examples
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One of our most successful wine-growers here, commenced his operations with a simple hole in the ground, dug under his house, and his first wine press was merely a large beam, let into a tree, which acted as a lever upon the grapes, with a press-bed, also of his own making.
The Cultivation of The Native Grape, and Manufacture of American Wines George Husmann
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Next door, in the dining-room, old Betty Harrison lay across the press-bed in which she usually slept.
She Stands Accused 1935
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For Roger's parents lived in a cottage near the old people, and the boy often said that he had two homes, and belonged half in one and half in the other, and the small press-bed in Granny's loft seemed as much his own as the cot in the corner of his mother's sleeping-room, and was occupied almost as often.
Christmas Its Origin, Celebration and Significance as Related in Prose and Verse Robert Haven Schauffler 1921
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She cast a white shawl about her shoulders, crossed the kitchen and so into the room where the four gentlemen were sitting about the table -- the Fiscal with his papers at the end, and behind the curtains drawn close about the press-bed where lay that which it was not good for young eyes to see.
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I was to sleep in a little press-bed in Dr. Johnson's room.
Life of Johnson Boswell, James, 1740-1795 1887
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But Connie explained to Ronald that the huge wooden wardrobe was doubtless a press-bed which let down at night.
Sue, A Little Heroine L. T. Meade 1884
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One was caught on a lawn with an umbrella; one was reported to have been found in a press-bed; another, coiled round in
Sir Gibbie George MacDonald 1864
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Four in the old press-bed in the corner, and one in a battered crib, and one in the narrow bed over which the coverlet was not yet green.
Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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The sandy kitten waited till Jan was fairly established, so as to receive her comfortably, and then she dropped from the roof of the press-bed, and he cuddled her into his arms, where she purred like a kettle just beginning to sing.
Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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At this moment the wailing of the baby disturbed the miller's eldest son as he lay in the press-bed.
Jan of the Windmill Juliana Horatia Gatty Ewing 1863
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