typograph

noun, verb — 2 senses

noun

Etymology From type + -o- + -graph.

Media, Printing, Publishing Historical A machine for setting type or for casting lines of type and setting them.

verb

Etymology From type + -o- + -graph.

To prepare type in such a machine.

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.1851, Henry Mayhew, London Labour and the London Poor, published 1861:

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