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Paging iron

A small brass instrument, about the thickness of brass rule, and twenty-five ems long: but made in the shape of a slip galley, with a crooked ear or handle. It is used in a type-foundry for the purpose of placing the types in lines on the galleys previous to being tied up in pages for the printer.—See Type-Founding.

Paging iron

A small brass instrument, about tbe thickness of brass rule, and twenty-five ems long; but made in the shape of a slip galley, with a crooked ear or handle. It is used in a type-foundry for the purpose of placing the types in lines on the galley previous to being tied up in pages for the printer.—See Type-Founding.

The second edition did not have an entry for Type Founding.

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