arming press

English

An arming press from 1832, The Imperial Arming Press

Noun

arming press (plural arming presses)

1. A bookbinder's press for stamping titles and designs on the covers of books.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “arming press”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)