linotype
verbEtymology Genericized trademark; presumably from line + -o- + type.
1
To prepare (printed matter) using a linotype machine.
linotype
nounEtymology Genericized trademark; presumably from line + -o- + type.
1
A form of typesetting machine in which a complete line of characters is set at once.
- His days were spent at his linotype, where he refreshed himself occasionally from an ever-present gallon jug of cherry wine.1960 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 15, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:
2
The slug produced by such a machine, or matter composed in such lines.
- Derived terms
- linotyper, linotypist