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frisket

frisket noun: a thin frame in a printing press that holds the sheet of paper in position and acts as a mask.

Noun

frisket (plural friskets)

  1. A thin frame in a printing press that holds the sheet of paper in position and acts as a mask.
    • And while the Tympan is coming, he slips his Left Hand Fingers from under the Frisket to the hither outer corner of it, as well to keep the Sheet close to the Tympan in its position, as to avoid the jobbing of the lower side of the Frisket against the small square shoulder1677–1683, Joseph Moxon, “(please specify the page)”, in Mechanick Exercises, or The Doctrine of Handy-Works, […], volume (please specify |volume=I or II), London: […] Joseph Moxon, published...
    • As the pressman returns the inkballs to the inkstone, the journeyman closes the frisket and tympan.2000, Richard L. Saunders, Printing in Deseret

Forms of frisket

pluralfriskets

Origin of frisket

Borrowed from French frisquette.

Questions about frisket

What does frisket mean?
Frisket means a thin frame in a printing press that holds the sheet of paper in position and acts as a mask.
What part of speech is frisket?
Frisket is a noun.
What is the plural of frisket?
The plural of frisket is friskets.

Words near frisket in the dictionary

  1. friskee
  2. friskees
  3. frisker
  4. friskers
  5. Friskes
  6. frisket
  7. friskets
  8. friskful
  9. friskier
  10. friskiest
  11. friskily

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