Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A line of types in the form of one solid bar, cast during the process of composition in some type-setting machines.
- noun In some type-writers, a short bar of iron having at its extremity one of the steel types which serve to make the impressions.
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Examples
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Amid all this decay she saw some bits of rust, a corroded type-bar or two -- even a few rubber key-caps, still recognizable, though with the letters quite obliterated.
Darkness and Dawn George Allan England 1906
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