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ˈside-stick Printing.
[side n.1 23 b.]
One of a pair of sticks, usually of wood, with one side slanting, used in locking up a form.
1683Moxon Mech. Exerc., Printing p. viii, By Furniture is meant the Head-sticks, Foot-sticks, Side-sticks,..and Quoyns. 1728Chambers Cycl. s.v. Printing, Some of these are placed at the Top of the Pages, call'd Head-sticks;..others at the Sides, call'd Side sticks. 1808C. Stower Printer's Grammar 203 Having dressed the inside of our pages, we proceed to do the same to their outsides, by putting side sticks and foot sticks to them. 1879Print. Trades Jrnl. xxviii. 12 The inventor claims for them that they are a perfect system of locking-up without side-sticks. |