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单词 printing-press
释义 ˈprinting-press
An instrument or machine for printing on paper, etc., from types, blocks, or plates: = press n.1 14; sometimes restricted to a hand-press, as distinguished from a printing-machine, worked by machinery, with cylinders.
1588[see press n.1 14].1655Culpepper Riverius Advt., At his Shop at the sign of the Printing-Press in Cornhil, neer the Exchange.1714Mandeville Fab. Bees (1725) I. 258 Would you..break down the Printing-Presses, melt the Founds, and burn all the Books in the Island?1861Musgrave By-roads 127 It is only because chroniclers were scarce, and printing-presses unknown, in those times.
attrib.1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing xi. ⁋1 The Worms for Printing-Press Spindles.
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