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Definition of Insetting
1. inset [v] - See also: inset
Lexicographical Neighbors of Insetting
Literary usage of Insetting
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Supplement to Encyclopædia Britannica (ninth Edition): A Dictionary of Arts (1891)
"The problem has been solved, however, by the invention of that marvel of mechanical
ingenuity, the double supplement insetting press, by means of which a ..."
2. Geological Magazine by Henry Woodward (1890)
"That the Tertiary strata and Westleton Beds on the north border of the Chalk-basin
were continuous until the insetting of the Glacial period, when they were ..."
3. Knight's American Mechanical Dictionary: A Description of Tools, Instruments by Edward Henry Knight (1876)
"... Eqs. insetting the eight pages within the sixteen, and 2. ... and fold, paste,
and odd upon t trim the eight pages, insetting same without pasting are ..."
4. The First Century of the Republic: A Review of American Progress by Theodore Dwight Woolsey (1876)
"The two-sheet folder and paster, for large twenty-four-page periodicals, folds
one sheet of sixteen pages, 30£ by 45? inches, insetting the eight pages ..."
5. A Philological Grammar: Grounded Upon English, and Formed from a Comparison by William Barnes (1854)
"... has a future tense- form, ™, made by the insetting of um in the root, as from
lacat, ' to go/ present, comes the future l-um-acat. 487. FUTURE TENSE. ..."
6. Printing for School and Shop: A Textbook for Printers' Apprentices by Frank Souder Henry (1917)
"DD 20 13 8 Twenty-page Form, To be cut apart and folded as two separate forms,
the sixteen insetting the four. The sheet must be tumbled. Twenty-page Form. ..."
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