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n. A person who sets type. Formerly an employee in a printshop who manually selected pieces of moveable type and assembled them for printing.

n. One who, or that which, sets type; a compositor; a machine for setting type.

n. A composer of types; a compositor.

n. A type-setting machine. See type-setting.

n. one who sets written material into type

"On p. 142 the giant crabs from the blurb finally appear, and, the author having run short of idiocies, the typesetter is forced to increase the interline spacing about 16% to make the book come out the right number of pages ..."

pressman    printer   

compositor   

memoirist    story-writer    existentialist    rhymster    scriptwriter    unreadiness    screenwriter