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Definition of Quadding
1. quad [v] - See also: quad
Lexicographical Neighbors of Quadding
Literary usage of Quadding
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Monotype System: A Book for Owners & Operators of Monotypes by Lanston Monotype Machine Company (1912)
""Quadding out" : When several quads or leaders are required in succession, the
KEY should be struck with ^^^^^^^^^ a quick stroke from the wrist, ..."
2. A Dictionary of Slang, Jargon & Cant: Embracing English, American, and Anglo by Albert Barrère, Charles Godfrey Leland (1890)
"Quadding (Rugby), the triumphal promenade of the chief football players round
the cloisters at calling over time before a match. ..."
3. The Practice of Typography: Modern Methods of Book Composition by Theodore Low De Vinne (1904)
"In quadding out lines use the en quad, em quad, and space-band alternately.
The more space-bands in any line the less full it need be set. ..."
4. Tales of the Trail: A Book of Western Sketches in Verse by James William Foley (1914)
"It's tough to think some worthless chap is quadding out his line. He told me nigh
a month ago, as cool as anything, ..."
5. The Typography of Advertisements by Frederick James Trezise (1911)
"... to set his type much nearer the illustration than he could if the cut itself
were used in the type- form, but it enables him, by quadding out the space ..."
6. Practical Printing: Explaining the Ways and Means of Production in the by George Sherman (1911)
"The matter is set full measure, across the proof-slip, quadding indentions so
that the composition will ..."
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