单词 | printer's gauge |
释义 | > as lemmasprinter's gauge printer's gauge n. now rare an implement for measuring or regulating pages, margins, etc.; = gauge n. 12a. ΚΠ 1864 Webster's Amer. Dict. Eng. Lang. 561/2 Printer's gauge, an instrument to regulate the margin of the page. a1877 E. H. Knight Pract. Dict. Mech. II. 1789/1 Printer's gage,..a four-sided stick for measuring the work of a compositor. 1921 London Mercury Dec. 185 The pages have been ‘made up’ by the printer's gauge rather than the printer's eye, and he has made sad havoc of the poetry. < as lemmas |
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