different between pressgang vs pressman
pressgang
English
Noun
pressgang (plural pressgangs)
- Alternative spelling of press-gang
Verb
pressgang (third-person singular simple present pressgangs, present participle pressganging, simple past and past participle pressganged)
- Alternative spelling of press-gang
Anagrams
- gang press
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pressman
English
Etymology
From press +? man.
Noun
pressman (plural pressmen)
- Someone who operates a printing press. [from 16th c.]
- 2009, James Mosley, in Michael F Suarez & Michael L Turner (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. V, Cambridge 2014, p. 166:
- 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, in Michael F Suarez & Michael L Turner (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. V, Cambridge 2014, p. 166:
- A journalist or newspaper reporter. [from 19th c.]
- one who pressgangs people into naval service
- one who presses clothes
- a tailor's pressman
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