1888 Jacobi’s Printers' Vocabulary / T / Taking a figure. [p. 138]
A method of balloting by shaking up and drawing certain figures from a workman’s apron, in lieu of throwing by quadrats, to determine shares of fat, etc.
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Entry taken from Printers' Vocabulary, by Charles Thomas Jacobi, 1888.
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