perforator
- a word derived from perforate.
Example Sentences
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The key machine in this unique operation is the teletypesetter perforator, which looks like a glorified electric typewriter.
From Time Magazine Archive
Now, as the drill bit touched 10,620 ft., the drillers had brought in the gun perforator to shoot 60 half-inch cartridges through the heavy steel casing.
From Time Magazine Archive
It receives a typed replica of the editors' copy from New York to be used as a guide for the printer and proofreader after the perforator unit has done its work.
From Time Magazine Archive
By literally shooting out the oil with a gadget called a gun perforator, Lane-Wells has increased the yield of U.S. wells by an estimated $200 million.
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Later this rather primitive perforator was supplanted by one equipped with a full keyboard on the order of a typewriter keyboard.
From Masters of Space Morse, Thompson, Bell, Marconi, Carty by Towers, Walter Kellogg
