linotype

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

Estimated from word frequency; not an official CEFR classification.

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noun a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that casts an entire line as a single slug of metal

From a trade name, presumably line + -o- + type.

When the linotype operator left, we gave David the place. — In Our Town, William Allen White
Surely the universality of the printing press and the linotype machine have done something to alter the character of literature, just as the train and the telephone have done not a little to abolish polite correspondence. — The best British short stories of 1922, Unknown
Aviation and the automobile and wireless and moving pictures and electric locomotives and electric cooking and the use of radium and the X-ray and the linotype and the submarine and the labor movement--the I. W. W. and syndicalism and all that--not that I know anything about the labor movement, but I suppose it's the most important of all. — The Trail of the Hawk: A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life, Sinclair Lewis

Linotype machine

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