typebar

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English

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damaged typebars

Etymology

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type +‎ bar

Noun

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typebar (plural typebars)

  1. In some typewriters, an arm actuated by pressing the keys that carried the type to strike the ribbon to form a letter.
    • 2018, Mark J. P. Wolf, The Routledge Companion to Media Technology and Obsolescence:
      The speedy, well-engineered Underwood was eventually so successful that within a couple of decades, the vast majority of typewriters followed its model: They were single-shift, frontstroke, typebar typewriters with four-bank QWERTY keyboards, inked by a ribbon.

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