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imposing stones

imposing stones is the plural of imposing stone.

Meaning of imposing stone

Noun

imposing stone (plural imposing stones)

  1. (historical) The stone on which the pages or columns of type are imposed or made into forms.
    • [The printer] gathers the letters marked as corrections in the margin, together with a quantity of spaces of all sizes, and returns to the forms, which in the meanwhile one of them has laid up on the imposing-stones and unlocked.1841, Thomas Curson Hansard, Treatise on Printing and Type-founding

Questions about imposing stones

What is imposing stones the plural of?
Imposing stones is the plural of imposing stone.

Words near imposing stones in the dictionary

  1. imposex
  2. imposexed
  3. imposin'
  4. imposing
  5. imposing stone
  6. imposing stones
  7. imposing table
  8. imposing tables
  9. imposingly
  10. imposingness
  11. imposition

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