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plural pressmen
Someone who operates a printing press. quotations examples
As the pressman returns the inkballs to the inkstone, the journeyman closes the frisket and tympan.
2000, Richard L. Saunders, Printing in Deseret
Moxon […] gives the area required by a press and pressmen as 7 feet square, and for a frame with a pair of cases, an area 4 ft 6 in square.
2009, James Mosley, edited by Michael F Suarez and Michael L Turner, The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. V, Cambridge, published 2014, page 166
A journalist or newspaper reporter. quotations examples
"He hates pressmen, but I am in his confidence, for he knows that I will publish no more than he authorizes."
1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed
Quite a crowd of townspeople turned out to see the train start, and several pressmen were busily engaged in taking notes and photographs.
1949 November and December, “Notes and News: By Special Train to Llanfair”, in Railway Magazine, page 409
One who pressgangs people into naval service. examples
One who presses clothes. examples