typograph

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English

Etymology

From type +‎ -o- +‎ -graph.

Noun

typograph (plural typographs)

  1. (printing, historical) A machine for setting type or for casting lines of type and setting them.

Verb

typograph (third-person singular simple present typographs, present participle typographing, simple past and past participle typographed)

  1. To prepare type in such a machine.
    • 1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:
      It is the merest chance in the world whether you’re born a countess or a washerwoman. I’m neither one nor t’other; I’m only a mot who does a little typographing by way of variety.