punch press

noun

Machinery.

1. a power-driven machine used to cut, draw, or otherwise shape material, especially metal sheets, with dies, under pressure or by heavy blows.

Word History and Origins

Origin of punch press¹

First recorded in 1910–15

Example Sentences

He has one 81-year old employee still working a punch press.

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Her father constantly worried about his young daughter working with sheet metal and operating punch press machines.

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The legs, I bought a year and a half ago from an eight-ton punch press.

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Gary said John, his grandfather, who died in the late 1970s, made the lure heads at home with a punch press, using a die like the one at Westclox.

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Roman said Pedro had worked a punch press machine in a factory, but he stopped working because he drank so heavily.

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