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Stickful

Term · Industrial and trades · MLC-T-IND-005656

A measure of composed type that fills a composing stick, a handheld tray used by typesetters to assemble lines of metal type. The amount of type a stickful represents varies depending on the size of the stick and the type size. It was a practical unit for estimating the progress of manual typesetting.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-IND-005656
FieldIndustrial and trades
SubjectIndustrial printing
TranslationsGerman: Stickful; Spanish: galerada; French: composition au composteur
Record as JSON
{
  "id": "MLC-T-IND-005656",
  "term": "Stickful",
  "field": "Industrial and trades",
  "definition": "A measure of composed type that fills a composing stick, a handheld tray used by typesetters to assemble lines of metal type. The amount of type a stickful represents varies depending on the size of the stick and the type size. It was a practical unit for estimating the progress of manual typesetting.",
  "subject": "Industrial printing",
  "translations": {
    "de": "Stickful",
    "es": "galerada",
    "fr": "composition au composteur"
  },
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/industrial/stickful/"
}

Record 6,127 of 7,291 in Industrial and trades terminology (MLC-0113). Request the full dataset.