linotype

From a trade name, presumably line +‎ -o- +‎ type.

linotype (plural linotypes)

1. A form of typesetting machine in which a complete line of characters is set at once.
   • 1960 July 11, Harper Lee, chapter 15, in To Kill a Mockingbird, Philadelphia, Pa.; New York, N.Y.: J[oshua] B[allinger] Lippincott Company, →OCLC:

     His days were spent at his linotype, where he refreshed himself occasionally from an ever-present gallon jug of cherry wine.

2. The slug produced by such a machine, or matter composed in such lines.

linotype (third-person singular simple present linotypes, present participle linotyping, simple past and past participle linotyped)

1. To prepare (printed matter) using a linotype machine.

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linotype f (plural linotypes)

1. linotype

• “linotype”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012