1888 Jacobi’s Printers' Vocabulary / C / Composing Stick. [p. 25]
A tool or implement for setting type in, usually made of iron or gun-metal. Long sticks, such as are used for broadsides, are made of wood for lightness
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Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.