typesetter

Various pieces of moveable type.

Meaning

Noun

  • A person who sets type; an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of movable type and assembled them for printing.
  • A machine that combines type in the correct order for printing.

Related

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Origin

  • type + setter

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