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pressman en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

From press + man.

Meanings

1. Someone who operates a printing press.
   • Moxon […] gives the area required by a press and pressmen as 7 feet square, and for a frame with a pair of cases, an area 4 ft 6 in square. 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 166:
   • As the pressman returns the inkballs to the inkstone, the journeyman closes the frisket and tympan. 2000, Richard L. Saunders, Printing in Deseret:
   • The suspicious pressmen had threatened destruction to anyone whose inventions might suspend their employment—'destruction to him and his traps.' 1847, editorial staff, “Introduction of Steam Printing”, in Scientific American, series 1, Volume 3, Issue 9, page 66:
2. A journalist or newspaper reporter.
   • Quite a crowd of townspeople turned out to see the train start, and several pressmen were busily engaged in taking notes and photographs. 1949 November and December, “Notes and News: By Special Train to Llanfair”, in Railway Magazine, page 409:
   • "He hates pressmen, but I am in his confidence, for he knows that I will publish no more than he authorizes." 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed:
3. One who pressgangs people into naval service.
4. One who presses clothes.
   • a tailor's pressman

Forms

Deriveds

pressmanship · pressman's hat