What is "stencils"

Usage examples of "stencils".

Now that the stencils had arrived, he would have to figure out how to use the duplicating machine.

Once a traditional print shop somewhere—such as in Cologne—has created the form for cutting the stencil, it can make as many stencils as may be needed.

With these stencils, you can have the little machine anywhere and if a printer somewhere else makes the stencil and sends it to you, you don't need the type in your shop.

Myself, if I could get hold of one, I'd develop a sideline in producing the stencils and selling them.

It's printed, I think, but he wants your Papa to make stencils and make more copies of it for him.

Your stuff is sent to Hamburg or some other free port under false stencils and manifest: these are changed inside the factory and the stuff embarked on a Russian ship.

I pried the top off with some difficulty and the stencils didn't lie: six unmarked alcohol compasses, packed in straw and white paper.

The 'same disposal stencils as before, contents marked 'Champion Spark Plugs, 2 gross'.

I was almost certain what they were before I crossed to examine them, and as soon as I saw the stencils on top I was certain.

The stencils cost about 20¢ each and take about fifteen minutes to make.

As she gathered the tools she'd used to paint the stencils around the upstairs hallway doors, she tried to recall when she'd stopped trying.

Next from his pocket he drew two curious stencils, as it were, which he had apparently carefully prepared.

With his hands, still carefully gloved, he rubbed the stencils on his hair, as if to cover them with a film of natural oils.

He has actually made stencils or something of the sort on which by some mechanical process he has actually forged the hitherto infallible finger prints!