linotype

¹

[lahy-nuh-tahyp]

verb

Printing.

linotyped, linotyping 

1. to typeset on a Linotype machine.

Linotype

²

[lahy-nuh-tahyp]

Trademark.

1. a brand of typesetting machine that casts solid lines of type from brass dies, or matrices, selected automatically by actuating a keyboard.

Linotype

/ ˈlaɪnəʊˌtaɪp /

noun

1. a typesetting machine, operated by a keyboard, that casts an entire line on one solid slug of metal

2. type produced by such a machine

Other Word Forms

• linotyper noun
• linotypist noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of linotype¹

Linotype

Example Sentences

My newspaper career began at age 16 as a printer’s devil — cleaning presses, melting Linotype lead — for the weekly Ojai Valley News.

From Los Angeles Times

The skills required to turn hot lead into letters on a Linotype machine or to position a strip of cold type on a grid board were easily transferrable.

From Washington Post

The Linotype machine resembled a medieval torture device with its hulking metal form and the wisps of steam curling from the cauldron of molten lead in its core.

From Literature

In previous lives, it had been a brewery and a plant that produced the small furnaces used to melt the lead in Linotype machines.

From Washington Post

Fifty years earlier, he’d taken a school field trip to the old Times building on West 43rd Street, marveling over the printing presses and Linotype machines.

From New York Times