1888 Jacobi’s Printers' Vocabulary / E / Emptied. [p. 39]
When a composing stick or galley is full, and the type is lifted out of the stick or off the galley, it is said to be emptied.
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Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.