mimeograph
a printing machine with an ink-fed drum, around which a cut waxed stencil is placed and which rotates as successive sheets of paper are fed into it.
a copy made from a mimeograph.
to duplicate (something) by means of a mimeograph.
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Origin of mimeograph
1Other words from mimeograph
- un·mim·e·o·graphed, adjective
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How to use mimeograph in a sentence
When I began, the mimeograph machine was kind of the height of technology.
Gloria Steinem: ‘I’ve never seen this much activism in my life’ | ehinchliffe | October 26, 2020 | FortuneHe moved to one corner and began dragging out an old double-cylinder mimeograph.
Police Your Planet | Lester del ReySo it also is in regard to the mimeograph, whose forerunner, the electric pen, was born of Edison's brain in 1877.
Edison, His Life and Inventions | Frank Lewis Dyer and Thomas Commerford MartinWhat are the differences in a hectograph, a mimeograph and multigraph?
Mechanical Devices in the Home | Edith Louise AllenThe mimeograph was the same idea in a totally different form.
Steam Steel and Electricity | James W. Steele
One would have thought that printing had never been invented, nor even the mimeograph.
Six Major Prophets | Edwin Emery Slosson
British Dictionary definitions for Mimeograph
/ (ˈmɪmɪəˌɡrɑːf, -ˌɡræf) /
trademark an office machine for printing multiple copies of text or line drawings from an inked drum to which a cut stencil is fixed
a copy produced by this machine
to print copies from (a prepared stencil) using this machine
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