Definition of Handpress

1. [n -ES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Handpress

handover
handovers
handpainted
handphone
handphones
handpick
handpicked
handpicking
handpicks
handpiece
handpieces
handplant
handplay
handplays
handpress (current term)
handpresses
handprint
handprinted
handprints
handpump
handpumps
handrail
handrails
handraised
handrest
handroll
hands
hands-down
hands-free

Literary usage of Handpress

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Goodwin's Official Annual Turf Guide for ...Horse racing (1897)
"handpress and Handball. Won driving by nose; length bet. 2d and 3d. Vnl. $7750. Time, 1:15. a«;:! I. The Boulevard Handicap of $2,r,00. For three-year-olds; ..."

2. Oxf. Hist. Soc by Oxford Historical Society (1896)
"It is curious that, long before any further change was made in the construction of the handpress, the principle of the cylinder machine—a principle upon ..."

3. Machinery (1900)
"He writes: "In regard to the use of a printing press for printing titles on tracings, we are using a small handpress for this purpose, the frame of which ..."

4. Bulletin by National Society for Vocational Education (1910)
"Fundamental rules of printing with the handpress: The various ... Remarks on making up the form for the handpress. Registering marks and pointings for black ..."

5. The Book of Specimens by Stanhope press, Boston (1905)
"... so-called " secret process " of stereotyping; another the iron handpress called the Stanhope press; a third, his system of logotypes and logotype cases. ..."

6. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1903)
"The actual handpress at which he worked was carefully Preserved in England i'ntil 1841, despite many offers by United States citizens to ..."

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