1888 Jacobi’s Printers' Vocabulary / B / Brass composing rules. [p. 12]
In order to expedite the setting of type compositors use a rule which is shifted line by line. They are sometimes made of steel.
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Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.
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