Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A punch-cutter; one who engraves dies for printing-types; a die-sinker employed in a type-foundry.
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Examples
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He was a famous designer of dies for coins and medals, and it is quite probable, as a countryman of his own has sought to prove, that he was the celebrated type-cutter, known as 'Francesco da Bologna.'
The Old Masters and Their Pictures For the Use of Schools and Learners in Art Sarah Tytler 1870
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Levet and Jean Higman in 1490, and argues that it was either obtained from them or from the type-cutter who cut their founts. [
A Short History of English Printing, 1476-1898 Henry R. Plomer 1901
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