fly press

British  

noun

1. a hand-operated press in which a horizontal beam with heavy steel balls attached to the ends gives additional momentum to the descending member used to punch or compress material

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Example Sentences

Three years later, that collection, “There are Little Kingdoms,” was released via Stinging Fly Press, earning Barry the Rooney Prize.

From New York Times

Stinging Fly magazine published a number of my stories in 2012 and 2013, and I began working with Declan Meade toward a collection, which will be published in Ireland in 2015 by the Stinging Fly Press.

From The New Yorker

Eleven titles have been chosen for the £10,000 prize, from Mary Costello's collection of Irish short stories The China Factory, released by small publisher Stinging Fly Press, to Harbach's novel, which follows the story of baseball player Henry Skrimshander and arrives garlanded with praise from Jonathan Franzen and John Irving.

From The Guardian

This change is attributed to the employment of machinery, especially of the fly press, in stamping out and embossing the ribs, and the extensive employment of chromo-lithography, an art not practised at the former period.

From Project Gutenberg

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From Project Gutenberg