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A writing implement with a small toothed wheel that cuts small holes in a stencil
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cyclostyle
Word definitions for cyclostyle in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cyclostyle \Cy"clo*style\ (s?"kl?-st?l), n. [Cyclo + style.] A contrivance for producing manifold copies of writing or drawing. The writing or drawing is done with a style carrying a small wheel at the end which makes minute punctures in the paper, thus ...
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. a writing implement with a small toothed wheel that cuts small holes in a stencil v. print with an implement with small toothed wheels that cuts small holes in a stencil
Wikipedia
Word definitions in Wikipedia
A cyclostyle (from the Greek words for "circle" and "column") is a term used in architecture . A structure composed of a circular range of columns without a core is cyclostylar; with a core the range would be peristyle . This is the species of edifice called ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 (context architecture English) A circular group of columns without a core. 2 A device used to make copy of a drawing or writing, via small punctures made in the outline vb. To use such a wheel and puncture device to make copies.
Usage examples of cyclostyle.
I am black but comely at this moment: because the cyclostyle has blacked me.
And suddenly the written report was there before him on his desk: cyclostyled on blue flimsy because it was traded, source unknown and probably unreliable, and every word of it came back to him in letters a foot high.
Or one of those cyclostyled battle-cries that émigrés send each other like Christmas cards.