A ball used by printers for inking type; = pumpet, n. Cf. pump-ball, n.

Printing. A small cushion, leather-covered or formed of composition, used for inking the type.

A ball used for inking type; = pumpet, n. Cf. pumping ball, n.

More fully pumpet-ball. The ball, originally covered with sheepskin, formerly used by printers for inking the type; an ink-ball. Cf. pump-ball, n., p…

Printing. = pelt ball n. at compounds 2; (also) untanned sheepskin used to make pelt balls. Obsolete.

a spherical pad covered with untanned sheepskin and used for applying ink to the forme; cf. sense 2b.

= dabber, n. 1b (Ogilvie).

spec. A rounded mass of some elastic material, enclosed in leather or silk, used to apply ink, colour, etc., evenly to a surface; employed in…

A printer's dabber.

= tampon, n. 2.

The dabber or inking ball used in lithography and copperplate printing. (So also in French.)

(a) = ball, n.1 18; (b) a kind of oak-gall employed in the manufacture of ink.