| 单词 | foot-stick |
| 释义 | > as lemmasfoot-stick foot-stick n. Printing a bevelled stick put at the bottom of pages in a forme so as to secure them. ΘΚΠ society > communication > printing > composing equipment > [noun] > furniture surrounding matter in chase > specific quoin1570 reglet1636 foot-stick1683 side stick1683 clump1875 galley-stick1888 1683 J. Moxon Mech. Exercises II. 29 The Foot-sticks [are placed] against the foot or bottom of the Page. 1755 J. Smith Printer's Gram. x. 270 Gently drive the Quoins along the Side-sticks at first, and then those along the Foot-sticks. 1808 C. Stower Printer's Gram. 203 Having dressed the inside of our pages, we proceed to do the same to their outsides, by putting side sticks and foot sticks to them. 1888 C. T. Jacobi Printers' Vocab. 46 Footstick, a bevelled stick put at the bottom of a page or pages to quoin up against. 1982 P. W. M. Blayney Texts King Lear 530 Each [stage direction] was set in a marginal column of quotation quads..extending from head-stick to foot-stick and vertically justified. 2013 J. Mosley in M. F. Suarez & H. R. Woudhuysen Book xi. 137 Wooden quoins or wedges were driven against long wedge-shaped sidesticks or footsticks to hold pages and furniture together. < as lemmas |
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