Composing stick

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In printing and typesetting, a composing stick is an instrument used to assemble pieces of metal type into words and lines which are later bound into a forme and printed. The stick may be held in either the left hand or the right hand, depending on the operator's preference. The composing stick has one adjustable end allowing the length of the lines and consequent width of the page or column to be set.

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• Man, John The Gutenberg Revolution:The story of a genius that changed the world (c) 2002 Headline Book Publishing, a division of Hodder Headline, London. ISBN 0-7472-4504-5. A detailed examination of Gutenberg's life and invention interwoven with the underlying social and religious upheaval of Medieval Europe on the eve of the Renaissance.

• Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary 1913.

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