单词 | printery |
释义 | printeryn. 1. A printing house or office; a press. Now chiefly North American and Australian. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > printing trade > [noun] > printing establishment printing house1553 house?a1563 press1579 printing shop1589 printing office1600 print house1607 printery1638 typography1660 imprimery1663 chapel1688 print shop1845 1638 H. Peter Let. in Coll. Mass. Hist. Soc. (1863) 4th Ser. VI. 99 Wee have a printery here. 1657 W. Rand tr. P. Gassendi Mirrour of Nobility iv. 28 He would cause the Vatican Printery to be set on work again. 1848 J. R. Bartlett Dict. Americanisms 262 Bakery, bindery, have long been in use amongst us, and in New York even paintery and printery. 1860 Portsmouth (Ohio) Times 17 Mar. If we are to have a National Printery, why not Paper-Mills also? 1894 N. Brit. Daily Mail 7 Sept. 2 The American Government,..and some of our colonies, had established Government printeries. 1943 K. Tennant Ride on Stranger x. 102 The Order owned..a share in a printery. 1973 New Journalist (Austral.) July–Aug. 6/2 The licence of 3KZ is owned by Industrial Printing and Publicity Co. Ltd. This began as a Labor printery. 1979 V. S. Naipaul Bend in River xiv. 229 We didn't have many printeries in the town. 1993 Gazette (Montreal) 18 Apr. a8 At the vine-covered stone building of the Mackenzie Heritage Printery in nearby Queenston, Ont., printer Bill Poole recently admired the English Oak press that Roy used to print the first edition of the Gazette. 2. Chiefly U.S. A factory in which cotton fabrics are printed; = print-work n. 2. Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > other surface-printing > [noun] > textiles > factory for printing printfield1742 print-work1800 print house1815 printery1826 print ground1839 1826 J. Williams Let. 22 Dec. in Old-Time New Eng. (1975) 66 50/1 The printery, with its one story appendage for Madder house, makes a fine appearance. 1854 J. Hayward Gazetteer of U.S.A. 353/1 The Cocheco Manufacturing Company have now in operation here 4 large cotton mills..also, 1 larger printery. 1902 Q. Jrnl. Econ. 16 589 Meantime some of the manufacturers, who had bought a printery so as to print their own goods, found themselves in an uncomfortable position. 1913 Amer. Jrnl. Internat. Law 7 55 He built a national printery and established a woollen manufacture which furnished the clothing for the soldiers. 1934 Gleaner (Kingston, Jamaica) 25 Oct. 20/4 I had the opportunity of visiting the calico printery works..at Whaley Bridge. 1975 Winterthur Portfolio 10 52/1 Neither these early firms nor the cylinder printeries established around Philadelphia in the early nineteenth century challenged the flow of imported prints. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1638 |
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