platen

Estimated CEFR level: C2 — Proficiency

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noun work table of a machine tool
noun the flat plate of a printing press that presses the paper against the type
noun the roller on a typewriter against which the keys strike

From French platine, from plat (“flat”). See plate, and compare platin.

The king planted himself in a camp, which he rendered impregnable, and there menacing the routes by which the Saxon and Russian armies brought their supplies from Bohemia, paralysed their movements; while General Platen made a raid into Poland, and destroyed a great portion of the Russian magazines in that direction, so that the campaign came to naught. — With Frederick the Great: A Story of the Seven Years' War, G. A. (George Alfred) Henty

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