Printing. A (typically wedge-shaped) device used to lock up a forme of type. Now chiefly historical.

Printing. A thin, narrow strip of wood, used (a) †as a head- or side-stick, etc. (obsolete); (b) to make wide blanks between the lines in a page.

a bevelled stick put at the bottom of pages in a forme so as to secure them.

Printing. A thin piece of wood placed at the side of a page in a forme when it is imposed so as to secure it and produce a margin at the side of…

Printing. (See quots.)

(see quots.).