Pressman
['presmən] or ['prɛs'mæn]
Definition
(n.) One who manages, or attends to, a press, esp. a printing press.
(n.) One who presses clothes; as, a tailor's pressman.
(n.) One of a press gang, who aids in forcing men into the naval service; also, one forced into the service.
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Examples
- Meredith was no compositor, a poor pressman, and seldom sober. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
- In 1798 the Earl of Stanhope had a cast-iron frame made to replace the wooden one and added levers to give more power to the pressman. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The pressmen could thus, by great exertion, perfect the printing, when three presses were used, at the rate of 1,500 an hour. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- The inventions of Printing Machines and stereotyping were strongly opposed at first by pressmen and compositors, as calculated to diminish the demand for their labour. Frederick C. Bakewell. Great Facts.
- I thought it an imposition, as I had paid one to the pressmen; the master thought so too, and forbade my paying it. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
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