Definition of linotype
English to English noun - a typesetting machine operated from a keyboard that casts an entire line as a single slug of metal
source: WordNet 3.0 - A kind of typesetting machine which produces castings, each of which corresponds to a line of separate types. By pressing upon keys like those of a typewriter the matrices for one line are properly arranged; the stereotype, or slug, is then cast and planed, and the matrices are returned to their proper places, the whole process being automatic.
source: Webster 1913
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