hand punchn.
/ˈhand ˌpʌn(t)ʃ/, U.S. /ˈhænd ˌpən(t)ʃ/ Now chiefly historical.
A punch that is held in the hand for use. Also: a keypunch that requires cards to be fed in by hand.
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society > computing and information technology > hardware > secondary storage > [noun] > punch card or tape > punching device
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the world > space > relative position > condition of being open or not closed > making holes or becoming holed > [noun] > by boring, piercing, or perforating > one who or that which
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1803 T. Smith Wonders Nature & Art VI. 273 They lay their work over one of these poles, and with a hand punch press it into the form of a button.
1854 U.S. Patent 11,168 1/2 What I claim is... Punching the holes through the tips or jets of the gas-burners, instead of drilling or sawing, which can be done by a hand punch, but with more accuracy..by a small machine.
1896 G. B. Airy Autobiogr. v. 158 Mr Robert Ransome had remarked my method of punching holes in the paper by a hand-punch, the places of the holes being guided by holes in a piece of card.
1921 J. F. Friese Farm Blacksmithing 76 The hand punch must be longer than the center punch because it is held over hot iron while being used.
1962 Gloss. Autom. Data Proc. (B.S.I.) 91 Hand punch, a key punch into which punched cards have to be fed manually one at a time.
1997 A. Schneider Jump Cut! ii. 26 These cue marks were actually punched into the film itself with a triangular hand punch.
2011 S. D. Østergaard in J. Impagliazzo et al. Hist. Nordic Computing 3 197 These machines—except the hand punches—were returned in 1912 and..were difficult to use.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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