In a wooden printing press: a component containing a threaded hole by means of which pressure is transferred, via the spindle, to the platen.

Chiefly Printing. A wedge or the like for fixing an adjusted part of a printing press, as the stone in the coffin. Obsolete.

An object having the form of a conventional image of a star (see sense 10a). Printing A series of radial spokes in the shape of a cross or star…

waterproof cord used to tie together pages of type.

(a) a machine in which ore is made to separate according to its specific weight, by the joggling or shaking of an inclined table on which it is…

Any sharp or short projection, point, or spike suggestive of a spur. Frequently specific in technical use.

Printing. The feed mechanism in a printing press designed to be supplied from large rolls of paper. Frequently attributive. Cf. web, n. 7b.

a lever by which a type or character is impressed, as in a linotype.

transferred. Applied to contrivances of the shape of a banjo: see quots.

A printing head used in electric typewriters and computer printers, in which the type is arranged in a cup- or thimble-like shape.