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1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. xiii. 100 The holes for the rivets were punched by hand-punching with presses.

1873 C. P. B. Shelley Workshop Appliances ix. 265 It will be remembered that before we quitted the subject of hand-punching, one or two instruments were mentioned which..were capable of perforating plates of considerable thickness.

1907 ‘W. Rogers’ Erecting & Operating 149 Fig. 154 represents a portable hand punching device called a bear.

1951 H. C. Zeisig & P. T. Martin in R. S. Casey & J. W. Perry Punched Cards iv. 43 This [machine] permits much time otherwise required for hand punching to be saved when large numbers of cards are to be punched alike.

1983 M. McColloch White Collar Workers in Transition ii. 14 Checks that had been prepared by hand punching could be speedily sorted into a few major divisions by primitive sorting machines.

2011 J.-F. Perret & A.-N. Perret-Clermont Apprentice in Changing Trade 27 Hand punching did not last long because the punching in of each code was laborious and every error meant the process had to be completed again from the very beginning.