handpress
- noun
- /ˈhændˌprɛs/
- Archaic
:
prensa manual
- In the 18th century, printers used a handpress to produce newspapers by manually applying pressure to the paper.
Examples
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Henry Hetherington, editor of the Poor Man's Guardian, for example, defiantly substituted a black stamp for the official red one, which bore the emblem of a handpress and was inscribed with the epigraph "KNOWLEDGE IS POWER."
Academic text (1995) -
This use of Francis Bacon's seventeenth-century phrase shows how attitudes that had been shaped in the age of the handpress tended to be perpetuated in the age of new machinery.
Academic text (1995) -
At the museum, we saw a handpress that was used for printing books before modern machines took over.
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The artist demonstrated how to use a handpress to create beautiful prints from engraved plates.
Synonyms
141
4.1
A machine that uses pressure to shape, cut, or squeeze things
23
3.1
A machine that makes many copies of pages with text or pictures on paper
3
7.2
A way of printing using raised letters inked and stamped onto paper
How Strong
- Specialized
1
4.2
- Specialized
- Specialized
11
6.9
- Archaic
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Handpress combines hand and press, so it literally means 'a press worked by hand'. That's why it names the early printing machine people used by hand before automatic machines.