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Pressman  n.  One of a press gang, who aids in forcing men into the naval service; also, one forced into the service.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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"Pressman" Quotes from Famous Books



... it, Myles Crawford repeated, clenching his hand in emphasis. Wait a minute. We'll paralyse Europe as Ignatius Gallaher used to say when he was on the shaughraun, doing billiardmarking in the Clarence. Gallaher, that was a pressman for you. That was a pen. You know how he made his mark? I'll tell you. That was the smartest piece of journalism ever known. That was in eightyone, sixth of May, time of the invincibles, murder in the Phoenix park, before you were born, I ...
— Ulysses • James Joyce

... of a noun or pronoun is made clear or emphatic by the use of another noun or pronoun the two are said to be in apposition, e. g., John, the old pressman. ...
— Word Study and English Grammar - A Primer of Information about Words, Their Relations and Their Uses • Frederick W. Hamilton

... affairs, issuing 'The Long Islander' at random intervals,—once a week, once in two weeks, once in three,—until its financial backers lost faith and hope and turned him out, and with him the whole office corps; for Walt himself was editor, publisher, compositor, pressman, and printer's ...
— Whitman - A Study • John Burroughs

... writer and editor, pressman and literary adviser, real Bohemian and true friend—indeed, everybody's friend but his own—I never think of him but with feelings of deep gratitude. He was a rolling stone, and when I met him for the ...
— The Idler Magazine, Volume III, March 1893 - An Illustrated Monthly • Various

... proverb, 'If your head is not torn off you will wear a head-dress,' corresponding with our common saying, 'Better out of the world than out of the fashion.' But this nuisance, I repeat, should be abated with a strong hand by the preacher as well as by the pressman. The women and the children are well enough as Nature made them: they make themselves mere caricatures, figures o' fun, guys, frights. If this fact were brought home to them by those whose opinions they value, they might learn a little common sense and good ...
— To the Gold Coast for Gold - A Personal Narrative in Two Volumes.—Vol. I • Richard F. Burton

... the government luxury tax of 10 per cent, over and above. A well-known press correspondent, who entertained seven friends to a simple dinner in a modest restaurant, was charged 500 francs, 90 francs being set down for one chicken, and 28 for three cocktails. The maitre d'hotel, in response to the pressman's expostulations, assured him that these charges left the proprietor hardly any profit. As it chanced, however, the journalist had just been professionally investigating the cost of living, and had the data at his finger-ends. As he displayed his intimate knowledge to his ...
— The Inside Story Of The Peace Conference • Emile Joseph Dillon

... hand, his was a high ideal; he believed, with Andre Chenier, that he had 'something there,' something worthy of reverence and of careful training within him. Consequently, as we shall see, the drudgery of the pressman was excessively repulsive to him. He could take no delight in making the best of it. We learn that Mr. Kipling's early tales were written as part of hard daily journalistic work in India; written in torrid newspaper offices, to fill columns. Yet they were written with the delight ...
— Robert F. Murray - his poems with a memoir by Andrew Lang • Robert F. Murray



Words linked to "Pressman" :   correspondent, Caxton, setter, William Bradford, Bradford, typographer, franklin, journalist, typesetter, Gianbattista Bodoni, newswriter, newspaperwoman, printer, William Caxton, Benjamin Franklin, newspaperman, Johannes Gutenberg, compositor, Gutenberg, war correspondent, trained worker, proofreader, Frederic William Goudy, foreign correspondent, skilled worker, Bodoni, reader, Johann Gutenberg



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