stencil-plate

-- A plate-culture of a bacillus which had been exposed for a period of four hours behind a zinc stencil-plate, in which the letters C and B were cut.

Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 2 "Baconthorpe" to "Bankruptcy" Various

To the stencil-plate chivalry of the lyrics of the ubiquitous F.E. Weatherby and John Oxenford, the song-status of E.gland can blame a deal of its stagnation.

Contemporary American Composers Being a Study of the Music of This Country, Its Present Conditions and Its Future, with Critical Estimates and Biographies of the Principal Living Composers; and an Abundance of Portraits, Fac-simile Musical Autographs, and Compositions Rupert Hughes 1914

The enormous commercial demand of the five-cent weeklies for short stories of a few easily recognized patterns has resulted too often in a substitution of stencil-plate generalized types instead of delicately and powerfully imagined individual characters.

The American Spirit in Literature : a chronicle of great interpreters Bliss Perry 1907

There's an aniline dye that you rub through a stencil-plate that eats about a foot into any stone and wears good to the last.

A Diversity of Creatures Rudyard Kipling 1900

He handed me a paint-dappled copper stencil-plate, two feet square, bearing in the centre the six-inch initials, "G.M."

Traffics and Discoveries Rudyard Kipling 1900

They were regarded as a perfect protection against sin, and advertised as such by my knights everywhere, with the paint-pot and stencil-plate; insomuch that there was not a cliff or a bowlder or a dead wall in England but you could read on it at a mile distance:

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court 1889

They were regarded as a perfect protection against sin, and advertised as such by my knights everywhere, with the paint-pot and stencil-plate; insomuch that there was not a cliff or a bowlder or a dead wall in England but you could read on it at a mile distance:

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, Part 4. Mark Twain 1872

I am driven from pillar to post and hurried up and down, sometimes with stencil-plate and paste-brush to defile the fences with cabalistic legends, and sometimes in grotesque and extravagant character at the behest of some driving journal.

The Curious Republic of Gondour, and Other Whimsical Sketches Mark Twain 1872

They were regarded as a perfect protection against sin, and advertised as such by my knights everywhere, with the paint-pot and stencil-plate; insomuch that there was not a cliff or a bowlder or a dead wall in England but you could read on it at a mile distance:

A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court Mark Twain 1872

Until within the last few years the printing of cards was generally done by stencilling, the colour being applied through perforated devices in a stencil-plate.

The Gaming Table : Its Votaries and Victims : Vol. 2 1870