inkingn.
/ˈɪŋkɪŋ/ The action of ink v.; spec. the covering of type with ink preparatory to printing.
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society > communication > printing > preparatory processes > [noun] > inking types
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the world > physical sensation > cleanness and dirtiness > dirtiness > dirt > soiled condition > [noun] > stained condition > staining > by ink
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1818 E. Cowper in Savage Dict. Print. (1841) at Inking Apparatus The advantages of this mode of inking are considerable.
1833 J. Holland Treat. Manuf. Metal II. 233 It [a printing-machine] was found to be too complicated; the inking was defective.
1872 Daily News 18 June 5/1 The rending or the inking of a reputation.
1884 Leeds Mercury Weekly Suppl. 15 Nov. 1/1 He succeeded in combining a press with mechanical instead of manual methods of inking.
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General attributive, chiefly in terms relating to printing, or to those parts of the printing-machine concerned in the process of inking the type. (Cf. ink n.1 Compounds 3.)
inking-apparatus n.
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1825 ‘J. Nicholson’ Operative Mechanic 306 Two..systems of inking apparatus,..adapted to ink their respective forms of types.
inking-ball n.
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1890 W. J. Gordon Foundry 190 In 1815 Forster had found the Staffordshire potters dabbing on their patterns with lumps of glue and treacle. He took the mixture and made it into inking-balls.
inking-cylinder n.
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1790 Nicholson Specif. Patent A is the printing-cylinder..and B is the inking-cylinder, with its distributing-rollers.
1851 Illustr. Exhib. 491 An apparatus similar to the inking cylinder of the platen machine.
inking-disk n.
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1876 W. H. Preece & J. Sivewright Telegraphy 71 The position of the inking disc, with respect to the paper and armature.
1892 J. Southward Pract. Printing (ed. 4) 425 The ‘Minerva’ has its inking disc in two parts.
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inking-pad n.
inking-piece n.
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1790 Nicholson Specif. Patent The lever..raises the inking-piece, which applies itself against one of the distributing-rollers.
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inking-power n.
inking-roller n.
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1790 Nicholson Specif. Patent B is the inking-roller.
1875 E. H. Knight Amer. Mech. Dict. II. 1188/1 The diagonal arrangement of the inking-roller..is described in Applegath's English patent, 1823.
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inking-slab n.
inking-table n.
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1849 Chambers's Information for People (new ed.) II. 717/1 The type-carriage and inking-tables have a reciprocating motion.
1851–3 Tomlinson Cycl. Arts in Penny Cycl. 2nd Suppl. (1858) 538/1 As the inking-table..passes the ductor-roller, it receives from it a coating of ink.
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inking-trough n.
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