ring machine

American  

noun

Printing.

1. a Linotype used primarily for making corrections.

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Example Sentences

Pieces of the “Ring” machine, the problem-plagued device that served as a set in the most recent staging of these four Wagner operas, were stored here after it was disassembled in May; other components were sent to a climate-controlled warehouse in Newburgh, N.Y.

From New York Times

Leaving the Met, but Not for Valhalla The Metropolitan Opera’s “Ring” machine — the huge, glitch-prone contraption that served as a single set for all four operas in the Wagnerian cycle — rumbled upstage this week for a less-than-grand season finale.

From New York Times

By availing ourselves of the Nascopee River and the lakes through which it flows, we can easily penetrate to the highland where the inventor of the Ring machine has located himself.

From Project Gutenberg

The "ring" machine can be worked by a child, and can be learned in half an hour; that is the sole explanation of this deplorable phenomenon.

From Project Gutenberg