linecasting

Or line-cast·ing

[lahyn-kas-ting, -kah-sting]

noun

Printing.

1. the casting of an entire line of type in a slug.

Other Word Forms

• linecaster noun
• line caster noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of linecasting¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

If anybody ever tells you they can't get seventeen hundred galleys of type a day out of six linecasting machines—well, they just don't know High-Pockets Jones.

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The next morning I saw a new face at the keyboard of one of our linecasting machines.

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I remembered even the theory that all machinery was negatively charged with some sort of "personal" electricity, and that High-Pockets—having been hit by lightning—had a terrifically high charge of positive electricity of the same sort, which enabled him to do miraculous things on occasion with machinery—especially linecasting machines.

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Two still were at the linecasting machines, and a whole crew of others were running around the floor.

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