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Composing stick

In letterpress printing and typesetting, a composing stick is a tray-like tool used to assemble pieces of metal type into words and lines, which are then transferred to a galley before being locked into a forme and printed. Many composing sticks have one adjustable end, allowing the length of the lines and consequent width of the page or column to be…

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Composing stick

Nodes11
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Triples4
Avg. degree1.82
Density0.181818
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Composing stick

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Composing stick → An, Galley, Initial
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Composing stick → tray-like tool used to assemble pieces of metal type into words and lines

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composing sticks used type stick many made pieces lines adjustable width column sizes early setting wood well typesetting galley printing

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Composing stickis atray-like tool used to assemble pieces of metal type into words and lines0.90text
Composing sticksee alsoGalley0.60section
Composing sticksee alsoInitial0.60section
Composing sticksee alsoAn0.60section

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