typewritern.
/ˈtʌɪpˌrʌɪtə/, U.S. /ˈtaɪpˌraɪdər/ 1. A writing-machine having types for the letters of the alphabet, figures, and punctuation-marks, so arranged on separate rods (or on the periphery of a wheel) that as each key of the machine is depressed the corresponding character is imprinted in line on a moving sheet.
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society > communication > printing > typing > typewriter > [noun]
typographer1829
typewriter1868
typer1892
mill1911
office piano1942
1868 C. L. Sholes et al. U.S. Patent 79,265 23 June 4 Thus made, the type-writer is the simplest, most perfectly adapted to its work.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. III. 2677/1 The Sholes type-writer..is about the size of the sewing-machine, and is worked with keys arranged in four banks or rows.
1881 X-Y-Z Guide (N.Y.) Oct. p. iv Manufacturers of the best Type Writer in the market.
1897 G. Allen Type-writer Girl iii My type-writer continued to go click, click, click.
1899 T. C. Allbutt et al. Syst. Med. VIII. 25 One typewriter..is worked by means of a handle which is grasped.
2. One who does typewriting, esp. as a regular occupation; = typist n. 2.
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society > communication > printing > typing > typist > [noun]
writer1883
typewriter1884
typist1885
typiste1923
dactylographer1926
1884 N. York Herald 27 Oct. 7/2 Situation wanted—by lady, rapid stenographer and typewriter.
1887 St. James's Gaz. 22 Dec. Women..beat them [men] altogether as type~writers and ‘dry-goods clerks’.
1895 How to get Married 86 The marriage of the type-writer and her employer is so frequent that it has passed into a joke.
3. A machine-gun or sub-machine-gun. slang.
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society > armed hostility > military equipment > weapon > device for discharging missiles > firearm > small-arm > [noun] > machine-gun
machine gun1867
woodpecker1898
put-put1905
M.G.1915
typewriter1915
chopper1929
rattlebox1929
Chicago typewriter1940
1915 A. D. Gillespie Let. 3 Mar. in Lett. from Flanders (1916) 31 The only typewriter here is the machine-gun—the men's nickname for it.
1930 Sun (Baltimore) 25 Oct. 10/3 When the ‘typewriters’, as machine guns are called, rattle, it is natural for the police to suspect these ‘independents’ even of shooting each other.
1959 ‘J. Christopher’ Scent of White Poppies vii. 101 ‘You associate typewriters with more than one guy.’.. ‘Typewriters?’ Bella asked. ‘Submachine gun. Browning, maybe..firing automatic.’
1973 P. Evans Bodyguard Man iii. 25 Al Capone['s]..torpedoes..were mean with a Thompson ‘type-writer’.
Compounds
attributive and in other combinations as typewriter cover, typewriter ribbon, etc.
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society > communication > printing > typing > typewriter > [noun] > ribbon
ribbon1883
typewriter ribbon1975
1889 Pall Mall Gaz. 22 Oct. 2/1 The typewriter industry..is a thing to itself.
1897 G. Allen Type-writer Girl xi Ten thousand type-writer girls crowd London to-day.
1900 A. Conan Doyle Green Flag 13 The typewriter-like clicking of the hopper.
1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 4 My fingers..flew over the typewriter keys.
1902 E. Banks Autobiogr. Newspaper Girl 155 I took my typewriter brush out, as though to wash it in the kitchen sink.
1903 Christendom 13 June 393 Please furnish..12 typewriter ribbons.
1934 Webster's New Internat. Dict. Eng. Lang. Typewriter cover.
1966 D. Francis Flying Finish i. 8 Maggie's..typewriter cover askew.
1975 ‘D. Jordan’ Black Acct. xiv. 74 She was busy..with her typewriter ribbon.
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