Among printers, the flat part of a press by which the impression is made.
Word of the Day: Catachrestical
1. The part of a printing press which presses the paper against the type and by which the impression is made.
2. Hence, an analogous part of a typewriter, on which the paper rests to receive an impression.
3. The movable table of a machine tool, as a planer, on which the work is fastened, and presented to the action of the tool; -- also called table.
Platen-hallermund
Encyclopedia Britannica
PLATEN-HALLERMUND, August, Graf von (1796- 1835), German poet, was born at Ansbach on October 24, 1796, and died at Syracuse on December 5, 1835. His principal publications were Lyrische Blatter (1821), Sonette aus Venedig (1825), an historical fragment entitled Geschichten des Königreichs Neapel 1414-43 (1833), and a poem in nine cantos, Die Abbasiden (1835). He wrote also a number of dramas, of which may be mentioned Der gläserne Pantoffel and Die Liga von Cambrai. See vol. x. p. 545.
9th ed. Encyclopædia Britannica, vol. 19, p. 189
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