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Pigeon holes.

A slang expression used by compositors for wide and bad spacing, on account of the amount of white between the words.

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Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.

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Pie.
Piece-work.
Piece.
Piecing leads.
Pigeon holes.
Pigeon holes.
Piggery.
Pigh.
Pigs.
Pigsty.
Pile of books.