Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In printing, a petty case of wood or millboard, in six or eight divisions, holding the spaces needed for corrections on stone. Sometimes called
space-barge or space-paper in England.
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Examples
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The old man coughed, and Paul dropped his composing-stick into the space-box with a clatter, and spilt its contents there.
Despair's Last Journey David Christie Murray
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"Nothing," I said, as I clapped my stick down in the space-box.
The Voyage of the Rattletrap Hayden Carruth 1897
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