type-workn. letterpress; also type-setting, composing.
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1910 H. C. G. Moule in Fundamentals II. vi. 107 The compositor ‘justifies’ a piece of typework, when he corrects, brings into perfect order, as to spaces between words and letters, and so on, the types which he has set up.