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[duhk-ter] / ˈdʌk tər /

noun

Printing.

1. the roller that conveys ink in a press from the ink reservoir to the distributor.

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Etymology

Origin of ductor

1540–50; < Latin: guide, equivalent to duc- (variant stem of dūcere to lead) + -tor -tor

Example Sentences

Since nobody wants him for a competitor, the composers tell him he ought to be a full-time con ductor, and the conductors tell him he ought to be a full-time composer.

From Time Magazine Archive

About thirty years before Gulliver's Travels appeared, Addison wrote these lines: "Jamque acies inter medias sese arduus infert Pygmeadum ductor, qui, majestate verendus, Incessuque gravis, reliquos supereminet omnes Mole gigantea, mediamque exsurgit in ulnam."

From Critical and Historical Essays — Volume 2 by Macaulay, Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron

Naucrates ductor, a member of the Scomber family, the attendant on the shark.

From The Sailor's Word-Book An Alphabetical Digest of Nautical Terms, including Some More Especially Military and Scientific, but Useful to Seamen; as well as Archaisms of Early Voyagers, etc. by Belcher, Edward, Sir

Behmen sets about his task as a ductor dubitantium in a masterly manner. 

From Jacob Behmen an appreciation by Whyte, Alexander

Rex Henricus sis amicus nobis in angustia Cuius prece nos a nece saluemur perpetua Lampas morum spes egrorum ferens medicamina Sis tuorum famulorum ductor ad celestia.

From Henry the Sixth A Reprint of John Blacman's Memoir with Translation and Notes by James, M. R. (Montague Rhodes)