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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

Alas, Eusebius, that any thing should take the name of this nice sense that is not replete with goodness, that is not the true ductor substantium!

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 56, Number 348 by Various

Sisyphium canit ille ducem, canit inclyta Achillis Pectora: prædonum ductor uterque fuit.

From Gustavus Vasa and other poems by Walker, William Sidney

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

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)