hand press

English

Noun

hand press (plural hand presses)

1. A press operated by hand, especially a printing press. [from 17th c.]
   • 2009, James Mosley, edited by Michael F Suarez and Michael L Turner, The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. V, Cambridge, published 2014, page 164:

     More powerful versions of the traditional hand-presses were introduced during the first decades of the nineteenth century, but they did not materially alter the rate of production of the printed sheet.

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