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☆ type·writer (tīp′rīt′ər)

noun

  1. a writing machine with a keyboard, for reproducing letters or figures that resemble printed ones
  2. a style of printer's type that looks like a typewriter print
  3. typist

Etymology: type + writer: so named (1867), prob. by C. L. Sholes (1819-90), U.S. journalist, who patented the first practical machine (1868)

Webster's New World College Dictionary Copyright © 2005 by Wiley Publishing, Inc., Cleveland, Ohio.
Used by arrangement with John Wiley & Sons, Inc.

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