pressman

See also: Pressman

English

Etymology

From press +‎ man.

Noun

pressman (plural pressmen)

1. Someone who operates a printing press. [from 16th c.]
   • 2009, James Mosley, in Michael F Suarez & Michael L Turner (eds.), The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain, vol. V, Cambridge 2014, p. 166:

     Moxon […] gives the area required by a press and pressmen as 7 feet square, and for a frame with a pair of cases, an area 4 ft 6 in square.

2. A journalist or newspaper reporter. [from 19th c.]
   • 1929, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, When the World Screamed‎^[1]:

     "He hates pressmen, but I am in his confidence, for he knows that I will publish no more than he authorizes."

3. one who pressgangs people into naval service
4. one who presses clothes

   a tailor's pressman