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Pressman   /prˈɛsmən/   Listen
noun
Pressman  n.  (pl. pressmen)  
1.
One who manages, or attends to, a press, esp. a printing press.
2.
One who presses clothes; as, a tailor's pressman.


Pressman  n.  One of a press gang, who aids in forcing men into the naval service; also, one forced into the service.





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"Pressman" Quotes from Famous Books



... in the editorial faculty, at the same time being apt as compositor, pressman, verse-maker, compiler and reporter; but as adviser, satirist and humorist he was perhaps at his best. His one and two line bits of comment and wisdom were models of pithiness, and few writers have equalled him in masterly skill in argument. He is spoken of ...
— Famous Firesides of French Canada • Mary Wilson Alloway
... women I have known and who left with me a love of my kind that even a wide experience with knavery and misfortune has never dissipated. For my knowledge of Mr Greeley I am chiefly indebted to David P. Rhoades, his publisher, to Philip Fitzpatrick, his pressman, to the files of the ...
— Eben Holden - A Tale of the North Country • Irving Bacheller
... foremost among the encouragers of the early printing press in England; the monotony of the dull cloisters of Westminster Abbey was broken by the clanking of Caxton's press; and the prayers of the monks of old St. Albans mingled with the echoes of the pressman's labor. Little did those barefooted priests know what an opponent to their Romish rites they were fostering into life; their love of learning and passion for books, drove all fear away; and the splendor of the new power so dazzled ...
— Bibliomania in the Middle Ages • Frederick Somner Merryweather
... clerk was my bane and admiration. He was presumed by the verdant patrons of the paper to be its owner and principal editor, its type-setter, pressman, and carrier. His hair was elaborately curled, and his ears were perfect racks of long and dandyfied pens; a broad, shovel-shaped gold pen lay forever opposite his high stool; he had an arrogant and patronizing address, and was the perpetual cabbager of editorial perquisites. ...
— Campaigns of a Non-Combatant, - and His Romaunt Abroad During the War • George Alfred Townsend
... enough to leave the pressman alone with the star. As the latter promised to "give her a good puff in his paper," Lola, who never missed an opportunity, made herself specially agreeable to him. Her bright eyes did their work. "When we separated," ...
— The Magnificent Montez - From Courtesan to Convert • Horace Wyndham


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