linotypist

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linotypist - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Linotype \Lin"o*type\, n. [See Line; Type.] (Print.)
        (a) A kind of typesetting machine which produces castings,
            each of which corresponds to a line of separate types.
            By pressing the keys of a keyboard like one on a
            typewriter, the matrices for one line are properly
            arranged; the entire line, or stereotype, or slug, is
            then cast and planed, and the matrices are returned to
            their proper places, the whole process being
            automatic.
        (b) The slug produced by the machine, or matter composed
            in such lines. -- Lin"o*typ`ist, n.
            [Webster 1913 Suppl.]