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typesetter

English

Etymology

type +? setter

Noun

typesetter (plural typesetters)

  1. (historical) A person who sets type; an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of movable type and assembled them for printing.
  2. (historical) A machine that combines type in the correct order for printing.

Synonyms

  • (person who sets type): compositor

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plumbism

English

Etymology

From Latin plumbum (lead) +? -ism.

Noun

plumbism (uncountable)

  1. (medicine) A diseased condition, produced by the absorption of lead, common among workers in this metal or in its compounds, as among painters, typesetters, etc. Symptoms include lead colic, lead line, and wrist drop.

Synonyms

  • Devon colic
  • lead colic
  • lead poisoning
  • painter's colic
  • saturnism

Translations

References

  • plumbism in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.

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