Synonyms:
typewriter
Meaning: hand-operated character printer for printing written messages one character at a time
Usage examples
You are engaged in a certain occupation, say writing with a typewriter.
James wrote two letters, one to his wife and one to his lady typewriter.
Some business men allow their clerks to fill out checks on the typewriter.
Smith looked across at Betty, who had seated herself in her place by the typewriter.
He packed his trunk carefully with everything he would not need on the roundup, and his typewriter he put in the middle.
Just as one "studies" his typewriter as part of the operation of putting it to use to effect results, so with any fact or truth.
His whole bearing seemed to have changed, as if he had decided to regard her merely as a piece of mechanism, just as he did the typewriter, or his office chair.
During the past month almost every paper, with the exception of the agricultural journals, has installed an agricultural department, containing short articles by Lord Northcliffe, or some one else in the office who had an unoccupied typewriter, telling the American citizen how to start and hold the interest of a small garden.