1888 Jacobi’s Printers' Vocabulary / I / In the opening. [p. 63]
When compositors await a companion finishing his copy in order that the making-up may he passed, the person so waited for is said to be “in the opening.”
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Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.